Title: 843rd person heard from
Product review: i bought this book after reading the new york times review of it. generally, i trust the opinion of the particular times reviewer who wrote about it. but in this case, i think she went far astray. this is a paint-by-numbers oprah book: it's overwritten, contrived, and speciously literary. i feel a bit bad bashing oprah books because i was actually glad that oprah set the country reading again and i thought she made plenty of good book choices. but...she did also popularize a kind of women's literature that i find irritating and overly precious. and this book falls into--actually, personifies, if you can use that word about a book--that kind of writing. if you're the sort of reader interested in serious literary fiction--the national book award winning kind of stuff--i don't recommend that you buy this book. it will disappoint you.
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