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Title: So disappointing - This is NOT Prince of Tides.
Review: Pat Conroy has written a book with unbelievable characters, story lines, and dialogue. Children do not speak, act, or think the way the 9-year-old character in this book does. Actually no one speaks this way or with this vocabulary. Who uses "aplomb" in a sentence? Melodramatic characters is putting it mildly. I gave this book a fighting chance, but then gave up on it. Too many good books out there to read to waste my time on this one (over 600 pages).
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