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Title: Is paradise supposed to be this unpleasant?
Review: I've been an uncertain Goodman fan since The Family Markowitz, which I enjoyed, though with many reservations. In my opinion her writing had been steadily declining since. Kaaterskill Falls was mediocre at best, and Paradise Park is just plain bad. The narrator is supposed to be a flaky, young, Jewish hippie. What she actually is is harder to say -- she's really not much of anything at all, since Goodman fails to concoct a believable voice for this character (by which I mean a voice which doesn't make you cringe with embarrassment). I have to admit that I didn't even make it halfway through the book, so perhaps it suddenly picks up and becomes the satisfying piece of writing that some critics are claiming. But if the second half is anything like the first, then it is boring, poorly written, and simply not worth the time.
