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Title: It takes talent to make a reader hate a book this much.
Review: I loved Tarloff's other book so much I ran out and got this one as soon as I finished "the man who wrote the book." It's hard to believe how much I wanted to tear the pages out of this one and throw it in the garbage... it takes talent to draw emotions out of a reader like that! However, who wants to feel that way for an entire novel? Not me, surely. I did stick with it and finished it just for the obvious ending - why? I dunno. It was like using your tongue to play with a painful cavity page after page after page.It is a valid question in another review I saw here: is it tarloff's story? Why else would someone draw out such horrible pain with so little comic relief except as some form of payback?It just made me sad.
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