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characters fall flat. However, despite the plot's plainness, and the characters' lack of personalities, Wolitzer believes that "Marisha Pessl had an extremely cool and intricate idea for a novel, and ultimately it works. I was totally happy to sit in the darkness until the very last page, and I didn't move a muscle until the lights came up."
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