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Title: Boring and maudlin
Review: I listened to the audio version of this book - read by the author - and resisted feeling emotions from the story because, I think, the writing and the author's voice just screamed at me FEEL SAD! THIS IS SO SAD! THIS IS SWEET! THINK THIS IS SWEET!I was intrigued by the description of the book and still think it's a very interesting idea for a story, but the character development in the story is so, so poor. By the end, I still felt like I knew the main character only in the vaguest of stereotypes-- a deadbeat dad with mommy and daddy issues. We are TOLD so much in this story and SHOWN so little, and I'm not sure how much of it was based on how annoying the author's voice was in reading this (srsly authors, never read your own book (attn: Mary Karr!)).Tuesdays with Morrie apparently is supposed to be great, but based on how much I didn't enjoy this book, I guess I'll never know if it is or isn't.
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