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Title: Egomaniacal Apologetics
Review: The first line in this book is brilliant, "Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." It was all down hill after that. Naslund certainly likes to hear herself talk (write). She pontificates on a plethora of topics. She self-importantly weaves her "heroine" through a goodly portion of the current events of her time. Occasionally the prose tightens up and then she starts blathering again. We read this for one of my book clubs and save for one woman this was more or less the consensus. A man in our group thought the women would like it as he considered it chick lit, however, we soon set him straight on that point. Una seemed to be a user of others; a woman that sucked the life out of those around her. She was a woman without a soul on a spiritual quest. Portrayals like this do women in general a great diservice.
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