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Title: How did this get to be a best seller?
Review: I belong to a book club of 15 highly educated women. We picked this book based on publishers' reviews. We cannot comprehend how it got such great reviews. With the exception of one group member, all of us thought the book was shallow, contrived and irritating. We did not find the author likable. None of us would ever want to take a trip with her because of her endless chatter. She did not illicit sympathy from the group, we think because she just wasn't real. She skidded on the surface with little depth of feelings. Her story might have been more believable if we hadn't known about her $200,000 advance to write the book. It seems the money was her real motivation, and not to honestly share her journey. We gave it 14 thumbs down, 1 thumb up.
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