Title: More of a waste of time or paper?
Product review: Yuck. As I read it I kept hoping it would get better. I thought, surely, that Oprah's taste was better than that. And all the declorations I'd heard about how "insightful" Wally Lamb was when it came to chronicalling the difficulties of growing up fat for girls fell totally flat. I thought the entire thing was dreadful. The only even slight redemption at all was the very, very end. Tip for Mr. Lamb: next time, make your main character at least a LITTLE bit likeable if you expect us to have any sympathy for her. Heaping trauma on someone does not make them likeable if they have a basically distasteful personality/disposition to begin with. Men writing female characters always seem to be a problem -- there's rarely any real depth or insight -- and Wally Lamb doesn't seem to be the exception to that rule at ALL.
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