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16. "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair"

Sun Jun 29, 2014, 06:30 AM

Jun 2014

It has got to be a publishing hoax. It's so bad, I laughed all the way through it. Cartoon characters, childish dialogue with lots of exclamation marks (!!!) to let you know that this is IMPORTANT DIALOGUE. The portrayal of writers' lives is so far from reality that the publishers must have thought this was satire from beginning to end. And yet, I think the author didn't think he was writing satire at all. I think he wrote this in awful earnestness.

At 600+ pages, it's a masterful hoax on the public, designed to trick you into opening your wallet. Oh, and it was written by a hunky young man who looks on good TV.

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