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Title: Attack of the Simile
Review: I very much wanted to like this book, as the prose was highly recommended. But I couldn't get past the first 10 pages because of the over-writing. A simile is thrown in every other sentence and has a gagging effect. Such as: "I sat at the empty drafting table next to my mother's, drawing the way the venetian blinds sliced the light like cheese. (!?) I waited to hear what my mother would say next, but she put her headphones back on, like the period after the end of a sentence." This is only one example of an obvious writing trick that gets in the way of the story telling. I couldn't stop rolling my eyes!
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