Title: Gee Wiz-Kid Writing
Product review: Although I admire their intellect and attention to academic detail, this is not a great book. It is at turns both precious and precocious. They are trying to be too "writerly" - the effect is like miking the floor beneath an amateur ballet - you hear all of the steps rendered clumsily and obviously. The characters do not come to life except as stiff cardboard preppies, and after all that trying. At least Brown doesn't even try to depict real people. I tried to be sympathetic, but in the end, I hated this book and had a great deal of trouble trying to finish it before owing my tax refund to the library.
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