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Title: ... couldn't put it down
Review: ... but not for the reasons you think. I couldn't wait to see if Carrie would turn into an interesting character - and of course, she didn't.Being from a small town in the Midwest myself, it's easy to understand the supposed mentality of those around her. But the friends are so stereotypical and unmotivated that even I didn't believe them. Then she goes to New York to try and "find herself" and THOSE people are cookie-cutter, as well. Carrie so clumsily feels her way in the dark in this novel, that it left me wondering a) if the author had ever actually experienced life in either of the cities and b) what possessed her to write a story around Carrie, the most flaccid character ever, in the first place. If the point of the book was to convince the reader that Carrie was deserving only of the lack of the emotion she originally showed Mike after his accident (and her best friend who she all-but abandons and her mother, who she barely keeps in touch with): mission accomplished.
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