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Title: How can such a devoted reader have so little feel for language?
Review: The thing that best sums up this book for me is the fact that the word proscribed is misused not once, but twice. Once Nelson uses it to mean circumscribed and once to mean prescribed. How should I trust her literary discernment (which was apparently formulated on Harold Robbins novels) when her verbal discernment is so slight?Many have written here about the inherent snobbery of the book, so I won't belabor the point except to mention that anyone who describes him/herself as "well-bred" isn't. Instead I shall simply say that Nelson definitely knows the world of books--especially contemporary books--far better than I do, but her understanding of literature feels incredibly partial and immature.
