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fadedrose

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13. There was a good story...

Reply to fadedrose (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 01:33 AM

Feb 2013

buried in all the descriptions of streets, buildings, towns, roads, etcs., and the book would have been better without them. I would have cut the book from 350 pp to about 280 or so. I'm going to get the next one in the series and hope that he cut down on the boring descriptions. Others must have felt that way and told him...

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