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Title: The not so secret life
Review: I was foolishly disappointed with this book, even though I knew when I picked it up that it wouldn't be a "serious" read. It is not a brilliant exposé fit for the New York Times - it is more like the book version of an E! Entertainment documentary. Robbins writes about four sorority girls and uses a very fictionalized style to tell their stories (as opposed to a documentary/interview style), which I didn't care for. Frankly, if one wants to read college fiction, there are far better books out there. I would have appreciated more of a journalist's detachment and objective eye.And as for the whole undercover angle - it's not done too well. Nothing remarkably secret is revealed, no new truths uncovered - the observations in the book could be made by any college student. Also, the sorority behaviour is in no way exclusive to sororities. Many high school and college youths behave like the ones in the book, Greek life or no.
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