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Title: One of the worst I have ever read.
Review: Although she starts with an interesting idea, denizens of Los Angeles fiddling while the city burns, she doesn't realize it nearly fully enough. The whole book suffers from a flippant, shallow narrative voice and lack of imagination, not to mention poor taste and judgment in construction. Most of the book is a dull, unoriginal chronicle of women's disappointments with men. In the last few pages, the characters live through nuclear war, but not even that seems to get a rise out of them. This book was not worth reading. If I could have given it 0 stars, I would have.If you want a better book about the aftermath of a nuclear war, beginning with the somewhat droll premise that suburban life would try to go on, read Updike's Toward the End of Time. But only if you like Updike.
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