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Title: Beginning good, middle ok, towards end bore me
Review: All of Amy Tan's book are the same: mother-daughter conflict and reminscing the past in China.I enjoyed the beginning to middle VERY MUCH, but when it got towards the middle-end to end, I wasn't too interested in it anymore. I wanted to stop reading it, but I had to find out what happened, so I skipped a few pages and went right to the end.I thought this book would focus a lot on her mother's illness, but it was more about her childhood. It remind me very much of Adeline Yen Mah's "Chinese Cinderella" or "Falling Leaves." ("Chinese Cinderella" is a good book by the way.)I feel the flashbacks could've been cut short. I feel the ending could be better too. If you want to read a good novel with Alzheimer's in the story, read Nicholas Sparks' "The Notebook." Beautiful book.
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