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Title: Self-Obsessed
Review: The beginning of this boox was wonderful -- unlike some of the other reviewers, I found the narrative about the Irish Famine fascinating and quite well-written, and then was excited about the prospect of a different kind of historical fiction, along with the critical perspective on travel writing...but the book disintegrates from there. The narrator can't stop thinking and talking about herself. The whole book is fileld with "I"s that are uneccessary, from a technical viewpoint, and the character/author is so self-obsessed that when her best friend comes to her in a moment of crisis, the author's only response is "But she didn't ask me about ME, can you believe it?" UGH.
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