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Title: disappointed reader
Review: I was disappointed with the book. It read like a long magazine piece, something belonging in a woman's magazine. It didn't seem like the writer really interviewed 60 couples - she only mentions about 10 people throughout the book that she actually interviewed. She quotes twentysomething men and women that were quoted by other writers in other articles and books. A lot of her points are actually the points of other writers on this issue, and then she just footnotes the source of the idea or quote. Also, I felt like she was biased - just b/c she married at 27 and divorced at 28 she thinks "young" marriages are doomed, and she doesn't give us any examples of successful marriages among twentysomethings, or constructive suggestions as to how to make a marriage work. Parts of the book were interesting, but I wanted fuller portraits of the people she interviewed, and deeper analysis, because this book just seemed like one long magazine piece.
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