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Title: Pretentious,pretentious, pretentious
Review: I don't get it. Why the positive reviews? This book is easily the most irritating thing I've ever read. Why can't Shreve do her dialogue like all the other writers in the world? No, she has to put them in italics and make them blend in with the rest of the narrative. And the two main characters - Poets my God - are boring, boring, boring. The love story is totally unconvincing. No doubt it's a take-off of Bridges of Madison County. This one is just as superficial, only wordier.
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