>>>>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.
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>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....

Titter!

or at least to Jerkov!

Or if the previous two got married, and hyphenated their names

I don't know if it means the same in the US, but I wouldn't like to be called Pratt, like that doctor in ER. It means "bumbling, unpopular indiot"