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Title: Author Couldn't Finish The Course
Review: I finally gave up on Elizabeth Berg's "A Year of Pleasures." I was listening to it and the first 4 CDs were incredible--fine writing; I was thinking of buying the book for Shirley to savor. But the last 2 CDs were maudlin and awful; I finally turned the player off when the heroine began screaming at a college friend. Most novels start well but can't sustain the middle. Berg got further than that and then lost it. Maybe she could have saved the novel by writing 25% less. But those first pages--very, very good.
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