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Title: Extremely Disappointed
Review: As an admirer of Camus and Sartre I expected a great deal more from Beauvoir touching upon the human condition post-WW 2. Post WW 2 found men like Sartre and Camus in great personal turmoil, at loss to understand the nature of man and the society he found himself living in. What I found in this book were cliches and a great deal of saccharine. Her longwinded descriptions of her love affair with Nelson Algren was terribly boring, and without literary merit. Oh does he love me; he doesn't love me; he does love me, etc. This goes on and on ad nauseum. What insipid nonsense. What it comes down to is this book lacks sou. She did not once in this massive book touch me in a meaningful manner. She did not explore the inner and outer conflicts of an engaged person. I would say that you are wasting your time reading this book.
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