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Terrible. The horribly banal and hackneyed script etc. might have been endurable were the thing not mired down in PG makeout scenes against backdrops so carefully selected for their natural beauty as to be uproarious. Or if the girl didn't look like some spotlessly clean yuppie kid from an urban Waldorf School. (Is this honestly what the filmakers think feral people look like?! Could they not have called her "Mary"? Only the urban upper-middles would call anything that's not a cat "Kya.") But alas these were the realities. The story is utterly implausable, the script is rudimentary and the acting is the over-the-top cheese. Like being stuck at a two-hour traffic light. Some singing CGI crawdads ("Hello Ma Baby"?) would have improved this vastly.

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Cold Mountain was a fine read, and Frazier's successor to that one - Thirteen Moons - is wonderful, one of my favorite books. Nightwoods was perfectly good and worth the time each of the few times i've read it. Varina i remember almost nothing about but i don't remember it being bad. The Trackers was not good. The writing was rudimentary and the only character worth reading about was the old cowboy Faro who was, sadly, undeveloped beyond a stereotype. The rest of the characters being tedious idiots. The plot might have been compelling were the writing better and the characters worth it. Maybe. Hopefully the next novel is more like the first two.

The Trackers: A Novel

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The Old Man