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Title: Unpleasant people bicker for 300+ pages
Review: This is the story of two estranged daughters who must band together when their elderly father suddenly decides to marry a Ukranian gold digger some fifty years his junior.This book pulled me in immediately. Loved the quirky title, loved the beginning. Thoroughly enjoyed the first few chapters. But gradually, I lost interest. Such an unpleasant group of people - nobody to care about. The same conversations or jokes repeated over and over. So many lists: what was growing in the garden, lying on the floor. It became tedious. The reviews applaud this as a comic novel, and there are parts that are amusing, but it's very much black humor rather than the laugh out loud and read-excerpts-aloud-to-your-husband kind.I know this book has been extremely popular and nominated for numerous awards which puts me very much in the minority but I just didn't get it.
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