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Title: Well...At Least I Finished It
Review: I was so glad that I read this coming-of-age-in-hippiedom novel...mostly glad that I didn't give in to my ongoing desire to put it down and forget it. Ms. Long had the guts to stick to it and write it all; the least I could do was stick to it and finish reading it. But omigod...it's really a tiresome read. Are the rave reviews just puffery? The story just plods along with its feet stuck in the murky mud of childhood disappointment, long after the mud should have been scraped off and left behind. Ms. Long's writing is not too bad (oops, damned by faint praise), and she probably got a lot of catharsis writing it all down. But ya know what? Get over it, and get on with it. It's grow-up time.
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