Title: Terrible, painful, awful
Product review: This book was a horrendous waste of precious free time. Mayes is pretentious, boring, and a bad writer to boot. I have no idea why the book was so critically acclaimed. The renovations are so laboriously described, I wanted to scream. Her sprinkling of cute little Italian words everywhere is so very precious--it's like Mayes is saying, 'Look at me, I speak Italian! Aren't you jealous?'. Well, I speak French, and this book is merde. I almost bought the book, but luckily ended up borrowing it instead. If I had spent money on it, I think I would have to write to Mayes and ask for my money back.
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