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|title=The Schism

|sort=Schism, The

|publisher=Myriad Editions

|date=March 2013

|website=http://robertdickinson.wordpress.com/

|summary=Dickinson's observational writing is of the highest quality, but there wasn't a story here I ever felt I could get involved in. A well-written but mundane book is still, disappointingly, a mundane book.

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My girlfriend looked at the back of Robert Dickinson's ''The Schism'' and decided that it was just the kind of book I would enjoy. Which was a fair comment, as I'd done the same. A book that promised a man's world ''thrown dramatically out of kilter'', that was ''sharp, compassionate and darkly comic'' and which ''shows what happens when the lives of those you care about are suddenly, terrifyingly, at risk'' would be exactly the kind of thing I would enjoy. If only what was in front of the back cover had been anything like that, this would have been a great book.

At the back of the book is an excerpt from [[The Noise of Strangers by Robert Dickinson|The Noise of Strangers]], which enticed me more in a few pages than this book did throughout.

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