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Title: Poorly Written!
Review: Am I the only reader who found the prose ponderous, the dialogue stilted, and the whole thing badly in need of editing? I am amazed at the status this book has achieved, and doubly amazed that anyone would utter Salinger and Sittenfeld in the same breath. Read the prose out loud to yourself: are these long, wordy, rhythm-less sentences pleasing to the ear? Read the dialogue out loud to yourself: does anyone really talk like that, and do we need to have every single tedious, expository word in every conversation? At the end of Chapter 2, where was an editor to cut out the second half of the last sentence? (We get it!)Really, why is such schlock getting such praise?
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