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Title: Shame on you, Meg!
Review: This is a quick, fun read - a good beach book with some very funny moments. But - and it's a big but for me - every time Meg Cabot ventures into Italian, the book is littered with mistakes (at least in the UK edition. I'm assuming the US one is no better). The name of the airport in Rome is consistently referred to as "Fiumacino" (it should be Fiumicino) even on a boarding pass which is reproduced in the book. The menus are full of mistakes, she seems to be under the impression that the Italian for "No" is "Non" ... and so on. Doesn't it show a total lack of respect to her readers that she (and her publishers) couldn't even be bothered to get an Italian speaker to check this? Shame on you, Meg. The idea of reproducing menus and shop signs is fun - but there's a mistake in just about every one. You could have done a lot better.
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