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Title: I agree with "preachy"
Review: I am a Kingsolver fan from way back but I found this book annoying. She climbed up on her soapbox on the first page and never got down. I felt like the book was nothing more than her personal views on women and the environment poorly disguised as fiction.I must add that the whole Deanna/Eddie Bondo relationship was rediculous. We are supposed to believe that this forty-something woman is so out of touch with civilization that she never looks in a mirror (nor bathes, that I could tell) or listens to the radio. Yet she is wildly attractive to a 28 year old "Adonis". I don't think so.Being an environmentalist too, I appreciate Kingsolver's attempt to be an advocate through her medium. However, I'm looking for something else (like a real story) in my leisure time reading.
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