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Title: Hollow Characters, Zero Plot, Who Cares
Review: Oh brother. This is quite possibly the worst novel I've ever read. Telling the story from Kathy's perspective made it sound like a diary - a boring, tedious diary. How could people enveloped in such a tragic system have so little feeling? Reading about clueless twenty-somethings is not engaging. And then, to bring in an adult narrator at the end to "explain it all" was the ultimate betrayal of the reader -- and an easy trick for a lazy author. For the film version to be watchable, the director must have added entirely new dimensions to these flat, unaffected characters -- and entirely new plot lines where none existed before.
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