Title: Pretentious
Product review: Who is this person, Margaret, and why should I care about her problems? Because I could not answer these basic questions, I stopped reading on page 100. I simply could not relate to her or her life. She accidentally wrote a best selling book and she has the nerve to be whining!! But that's beside the point. I really wanted to enjoy this. I liked Schine's "The Love Letter" a lot. But this was sooooo pretentious. I stopped reading the inserts from the book-within-the-book after dragging my way through one or two boring, opaque selections. There were other parts of the book I didn't understand because they were about academics. Let those in the know enjoy. The rest of us would prefer to have the author help us out. Just for your information, I like complex books. Last year I read Anna Karinena (sorry about the spelling). It was wonderful, deep, complex but understandable.
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