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Title: "Good" doesn't have to be "easy."
Review: My book club just finished reading Paradise, and I was the only one who liked it (and one of only a few who finished it.) I was also the only one who took the time to jot notes as I read, so that I could keep track of the characters and story. It didn't take anything away from the reading experience to take these notes. On the contrary, it enhanced it immeasurably. I was disappointed in my clubmates for giving up so easily. I would have liked for them to all have finished and understood it, so I could discuss it with them in the thorough manner it deserves. Yes, it was a difficult book. No, difficult does not equal bad. Have we as a society lost our love of a challenge? Are good things no longer worth working toward? I thought it was a mesmerizing story because I understood it. I didn't understand it because of my intellectual superiority, but because of my work ethic.
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