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Sep 20, 2007 rated it did not like it
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I read this book on the recommendation of a friend, so I was determined to make it the whole way through, to give the book a fair chance. I did. I don't care what Oprah said, I didn't like the book. Lott does write evocative prose, but the scenes he evokes are often disturbing, in addition to being sad. His style is very repetitive as well, so that by the second half of the book I felt myself skipping over paragraphs, skimming and still fully understanding what was going on.
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