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Title: Trying to be Shakespeare maybe?
Review: I liked this book for the first half or so. The characters were very intriguing and I genuinely cared how the entanglements would work out. But it gets so incredibly tragic by the end that I felt as if the author thought he was writing King Lear or Romeo and Juliet (minus the poetry). As I neared the end, I found myself needing to talk about it and related the whole plot to my husband, who sat there in disbelief at how badly things were going for everyone. I agree with the previous reviewer who said the "romantic" parts (i.e., the sex talk) was childish. The author's descriptions of how a woman thinks about sex struck me as a man writing about a woman's experience, and it just didn't ring true. In the end, I found the book to be not a gratifying read. Guess I'll stick to happy endings for now.
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