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His fiction is far too long. I love his social observations, his attention to detail, his tone, but (with the possible exception of Bonfire) he didn't have the storytelling skills to make their length anything other than prohibitive. Beyond that he always seemed to pick interesting topics at interesting times. That's obviously the journalist in him and I don't think there's any argument that, while I do like all his fiction, he was a far better journalist than he was a novelist.
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