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Title: Please, don't waste your time
Review: I am a freshman student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul MN, and am actually shocked that I had to read this book in my freshman English course. My professors obviously wanted a light read to finish the year off, and this Oprah "book of the month" is just that: light. Everything in this book is on the surface, there are no insights that are left to the reader to discover and work out. I will agree that there is a good premise behind this story, but it never gets off its feet. I found myself laughing at the fake drama that Wenner creates throughout this novel. I found this novel highly unrealistic, not because of the story but because of its form. My worst critique deals with Annie. She is self-involved, obnoxious, inconsistent, and one of my least favorite literary characters...period.Please save yourself the dread of this book, and pick up a Faulkner or Steinbeck instead.Jeffrey
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