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Title: Couldn't finish this book
Review: I have read all of Kingsolver's books, and I think that the quality of her writing is going continuously downward. The writing I found to be so cliché-ish, I could not stomach reading more than the first 80 pages. Because the plot seemed so predictable, and the characters so flat, I went to the last 20 pages, certain I knew what would happen anyway. What happened in between could not even have been as good as I imagined. I was disappointed even with the last 20 pages. I think Kingsolver is probably a better writer than this book showed. It seemed she was either writing quickly to meet a publisher's deadline, or writing the book with the hopes that a film could be made of it.
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