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Title: Boring, boring and slow
Review: This book is slow, slow and then crawls. If you aren't a middle aged woman, it makes you pity them more than a post-Steinem member of society should ever have to. If you are a middle aged women, and Candida is the type of life you are supposed to enjoy identifying with - well, then, pass the knife now.I suugest that Ms. Drabble study her craft. This is not the work of an accomplished writer - this is the work of a pseudo-intellectual writing for other pseudo-intellectuals. Her use of language and plot - well, let's just say the only comparison she will ever get to Shakespeare is land of birth. She mistakenly believes that stilted, overstudied wordiness is a synonym for absorbing story, and the only emotion she engenders in her reader is ennui and stultified somnolence.
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