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Title: A Cheap Thrill
Review: For anyone who is not a native of L.A., or who is not at least well-versed in the essentials of L.A., Golden Days might appear as merely a bland, gratuitous biography regarding a single mother who finds, after the explosion of a nuclear bomb, that she has never known happiness until now. While reading about the "hip" hang-outs of the 80's, such as Michael's, as well as the cheezy attributes of the 70's, like giving one's children names akin to fairy tale characters (Aurora), did stir some amusement in me, they failed to redeem the novel from its over-all tedium. The second portion - intended to connote a new-found enlightenment in our narrator - serves only to portray her as a woman lost on an acid trip.
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