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Title: One-trick-pony fiction with a truly annoying protagonist
Review: I bought this book on the strength of the NY Times review and regretted it. The perspective and appeal of these stories are very narrow. I found myself bored with the privileged, neurotic protagonist and her comments on the inconveniences of modern life for the upper classes. A search for organic coffee in the Hamptons does not great fiction make. This territory has been covered by other New York writers and entertainers (notably Jerry Seinfeld) in a much more imaginative and entertaining fashion. Laugh out loud funny? It's not. The quality of the writing is unexceptional and does not redeem the one-trick-pony story line
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