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Title: Trade Riding Lessons for Writing Lessons
Review: Hard to believe the same person who wrote Water for Elephants wrote this book. It's not nearly as well written or well-crafted. Sara Gruen, thankfully, has grown as a writer since she wrote this one. I hope that her further efforts will be more in the vein of Water for Elephants.The story in Riding Lessons is not engaging and the characters are not believable, particularly the main character who is too stupid to relate to. She does ridiculous things, treats people in amazingly inappropriate ways and is, in general, too annoying to care about. If she were a real person you'd want to slap her. It's hard to get into a book when you feel that way about the main character.
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