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Title: facile writing; bad book
Review: Ms Maynard has written a self-serving book -- she attributes her problems to (1) her parents,(2) J. D. Salinger, and (3) her husband. She should have taken some responsibilty and found a good therapist. Her gratuitous name-dropping (e.g., Garry Trudeau)was annoying. And her claim that she was the "voice of our generation" - I am a year older than she - seems strange; I had not heard of her before this book, nor had any of my friends from university days.
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