Title: willful use of urban legends
Review: Ever hear the urban legend about the guy who insures a box of expensive cigars, then smokes 'em and tries to claim the insurance money because the cigars were destroyed by fire? Ms. Picault has the girls' father, a firefighter, tell his wife this story as if it were original. Later Ms. Picoult has the judge in the story's case state that he knows - because a relative who's a dentist told him - that a tooth left in a glass of coke will rot.What? Does Ms. Picoult think her readers are so stupid that they don't recognize an urban legend when they read one? If she doesn't bother to do even the most simple fact-checking, why should we accept any medical, social, or ethical premise of hers?While her subject matter is interesting, if you fall for her story line, I've got ocean front property in Arizona that might be of interest to you. Good grief.
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