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Title: Truly awful
Review: I'm wondering if the other reviewers here actually read the same book I did? My book club selected this novel based on the glowing reviews here (and the tag lines from all Ms. Goldmark's friends on the back of the book -- shame on you, Roddy Doyle and Amy Tan!!). I have yet to talk to someone who enjoyed it. The Amazon reviewer is being more than fair -- it's predictable, the plot is loopy, and the song lyrics throughout the book are practically unbearable. I figured out by the 10th page that I'd need to skip them if I wanted to finish the darn thing.Further, Ms. Goldmark may be a country music "insider," but I didn't get that feel from the novel. Most of the characters are immediately recognizable stereotypes: the self-absorbed big star, the greedy record producer, the citified record industry folk. Hilarity ensues.
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