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This book strikes me as one step below mediocre. Cliche quota reached by page 5 whereupon a doctor manages to use all three of the following phrases, "Beat, goddamn you." "Don't quit on me, don't you quit on me." "You coward... You..." I was going to take one for the team, trudge through because the premise was intriguing and the medical explanations (an out-of-place scientific accuracy that was not smoothly integrated into dialog) were interesting. But the characters are parodies of themselves,
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