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Title: Life's a Bitch, then you die
Review: If only Veronica had a sense of the absurd or a comic sensibility--then maybe it could have saved itself. But it doesn't. Although, after two hundred pages of despair, dirtiness, and despondency, I almost thought the book was trying to be satirical. It wasn't.Reading this book is like walking through a graveyard at midnight in the pouring rain as the graves open up and the dead come pouring out at you; but you're not frightened, you're horrified.Whatever you do, unless you enjoy reading about a self-centered model who thinks her beauty is a curse (how horrible!), then skip this novel. Let the judges esteem it, but you don't have to. It's bad, awful. The writing is over-the-top, melodramatic, imprecise. The characters are laughable, caricatures, really. And Veronica? She dies of AIDS--ain't life a bitch....
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