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Title: Well, I read part of the book; it's so bad I couldn't finish
Review: Maybe it was the "coral seas." After 30-some repetitions of this phrase (meaning lips, I guess) in the first two chapters, I was taken back to the time years ago when a friend loaned me a Judith Krantz novel, where the character's jammy lips were always being commented upon. I'd like to think Janowitz is a better writer than Krantz, but frankly I'll take glitz, sex, and shopping over this senseless surrealism. Janowitz has a fine eye for detail, so her descriptions of the scenes were amusing, but the characters seemed indistinguishable from one another, and I cared nothing for their fate. I'm not one to ever leave a book unfinished, but after five chapters of torture, I gave up.
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