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Title: Marriage:A Duet
Review: I HATED this book. OK, to be fair, I only whizzed through the second novella hoping against hope that it might get better. I found it to have gratuitous sex and language, "gratuitous materialism" AND completely run of the mill writing. I am greatly surprised that the author, an experienced reporter, who appears on the Jim Lehrer News Hour could write such totally soap operaish prose. The writing reminds me more of ad copy or the script for a not very good R rated movie. I mean who cares about all the yuppie accoutrements of the main protagonists--the "cashmere jacket", the de rigueur Jeep, the trendy jobs, et cetera ad nauseum. I thought Fleming's original premise about the devastation adultery can wreak on a marriage an interesting one but I found her, upon reading, to have nothing important to say. This is NOT Anna Karenina by any stretch of the imagination.Shallow. Stupid.
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