>>>OK. The story is entertaining, a pageturner, but the prose and characterization are atrocious.
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>>You can say pretty much the same thing about a phone book :)
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>Well maybe a Serbian one, with all those funny names, like Slobbyblobbydich and that,but not much entertainment in an ENGLISH book.
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Au contraire! Here are a few last names in the Chicago phone book, listed alphabetically.

Bend 4
Brasseur 2
Bugger 1
Dick 13
Fuchs 16
Oral 1
Sex 1
Wanker 1

If I were that last guy I would have changed my name to Jones a long time ago....