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The biggest problem I had with this book is the doggerel verse form that Rakoff chose is a form that just isn't well suited for long form interconnected narratives on serious topics. Case in point is found on the audio book -- Rakoff created a character who was toasting her sister at a wedding and purposely rhymed her toast rhyming sister and blister and not paying attention to how the line scanned. This "rhyme within a rhyme" was funny and quite hysterical. At the end of the audio book, Rakoff
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