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Mar 03, 2014john_doh17 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
The characters are compelling and the story line is good although not riveting. And Chabon's descriptions are amazing. My problem was that he just seems to go into too much detail which bogs things down. I saw Jerry Seinfeld at the Paramount a few years ago and he commented that with all the layers of decoration and glitz, how did he know when they were done? I felt the same way about this book. Some times you just say a chair is a chair, and you don't need a whole paragraph about it. It felt like Chabon went a bit over board at times...