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Title: A huge disappointment
Review: I loved Water for Elephants-- a compelling story with a F. Scott Fitzgerald-like feel to it, so we picked Riding Lessons for our book club. It was lite chick-lit at its most trite and contrived. The main character is completely self-absorbed and unsympathetic; she creates all the misery in her life, and somehow we're expected to care about it. The chapter in which she tries to cook a meal but fails miserably was unreadable. Come on, how many times has that device been used? The ending was predictable about halfway through the book. I think that the only satisfying ending would have been if the barn burned down, consuming all the characters in flames. That she chose to write a sequel is mind-boggling.
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