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Title: Pure, whining drivel (& not good drivel)
Review: Unless you have lived the author's life, this is a truly tiresome book. It may hit the spot for 23-year-old women who are intimate with the fashion scene. For the rest of the population, it's a waste of time. The characters are badly drawn. The main character, for instance, is supposed to be smart and feisty. She dreams of writing for The New Yorker. Yet she chooses a year of exhausted humiliation over relying on her assumed intelligence and determination to secure her future. As a reader, I get that she is exhausted and that her job is rotten. That comes across loud and clear, but the author never moves on. There's no relief, no sense of the character actually growing or changing. Instead one long whine ends with the character acting as poorly and selfishly as those the book presumes to castigate. I'm not far from 23, I remember what it was like to begin working, but please...show us you can grow up or don't waste our time.
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