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Title: too precious
Review: There seem to be one of a raft of books set during the Dutch era of tulip speculation. (I assume this has some weird link to our own era of dot-com excesses.) As a guy who reads mainly women authors, even I found it too chick-flicky (although, admittedly, I only got a third of the way through). The epigraphs were distracting. I'm surprised other people found the sex offensive -- that was the best part. I think that Gregory Maguire's "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" is a much more compelling treatment of the same era.
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