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Very interesting. I need to read more books like this. This was a fun and engaging read about some not-so-pleasant subject matter. While I loved the story, and loved to hate the six main characters, at times I had a hard time believing in them. I went to college in the 80s, the same time as the main characters, and never knew any one who drank and took pills constantly as it seemed they did. (And drank not the cheapest beer on sale, but scotch, whiskey, etc.) Maybe the college experience was dif
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genuinely have no idea how I feel about this book—I didn’t really enjoy reading it and found myself waiting for it to be over while also finding the characters both boring and unlikeable and hating how every single woman was written (odd coming from a female writer) but for some reason the end has me reframing the whole novel in my mind and tempted to classify this as the modern masterpiece everyone says it is? 3 stars until I’m less confused.

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