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Title: Beyond Hope. Or: Why Oprah Gave It Her Stamp of Approval
Review: Fitch has served the reading public a concoction of heavily steeped oleander.White Oleander is the most poorly written book I've ever read. Period. It seized my throat like a pair of sour pliers and juiced me like a lemon. And the ugliness of its prose made me sob like raw razors. Sadly, Fitch's diction has drifted over the valley of literary art like a vast headache and made people dumb with pain.If you mock my figures of speech, I applaud you. Oleander is overgrown with them. (Incidentally, I pulled these weeds from the fields of White Oleander.)Read this book if you want to expose yourself to today's literary allergens. If it doesn't bolster your appreciation for good writing by way of bad example, nothing will. You may as well read Louis L'Amour backwards and rave about the lyrical dreams of a foster child in search of beauty.Save your money (and health). Don't drink Oleander.
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