Title: It's been done, and it's been done better
Product review: I'm not sure what all the hoopla and fanfare was about--Chocolat was not a good book. I'm not faulting its magical realism genre of "Delectable Food Induces Amorous Affairs." It just wasn't written very well. While reading this book, not a moment passed where I didn't get hit with de ja vu. Even the ending was foreseeable--and the reason definitely is not b/c I've got this great prophet-like power--it's simply that the author does absolutely nothing new with this concept. This terrain has been mapped far better in other works. Think Isabelle Allende's "Like Water for Chocolate" or the wonderful movies, "Tampopo" and "Eat Drink Man Woman."
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