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Title: Waste of time
Review: I don't like to put a book down, and the only reason I didn't toss this one aside is because it was a gift. What is all the hype about? The characters were stereotypical, and worse, even after 100 pages into the book, I couldn't have cared less about what happened to any of them. The author is far too judgemental of her characters. She forced her judgement of them so much on the reader that I was almost inclined to root for the ones she didn't like. But like I said, I couldn't bring myself to care for any of them. The author inserts too much of herself and her opinions into the book, thereby beating the reader over the head with her viewpoints about race, academia, culture, and family life. A superb author can win a reader over to his/her viewpoint in such a subtle way that the reader does not even know that he/she is being pulled in a certain direction. This author clearly prefers a crass sledgehammer approach.
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