Title: Pointless and boring
Review: I ordered this book because I was reading it for a book club I founded. One of the book club members had said that he was a big fan of this author and had read amazing stuff from her in the past. However, as we read through the book, at each meeting this same person said he was thoroughly disappointed by this book and felt that her talent had apparently run dry. While I haven't read anything else by Joyce Carol Oates, this book does not inspire me to explore her further. The characters were totally unreal, the story meandered from pointless episode to pointless episode, and it was quite the drag to finally complete.
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