Colleen A. (cedarbend) reviewed Not good at all.... on 2/24/2009 + 11 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I found this book boring and contrived. I did read it all the way to the end because I figured I might as well see how it all turns out. As some other reviewers mentioned, there were too many details and they were details put in just to show that the author herself has good taste (in her mind). Drinking wine in France. Buying bread and cheese. Spare modern furniture in a loft with golden wood floors with accents of primary colors. I felt like I was reading about someone in the last 10 years who bought all their furniture from Crate & Barrel or Pottery Barn...not people in the 70's and 80's. Just contrived and pointless. These sorts of books are always so frustrating...reading the characters every meandering thought and how absolutely complicated everything they say and do tends to be. It's not reality...I realize it's a "story", but the best stories have touches of reality and you can live the story with them through that reality. These people just bored me stiff and I couldn't really picture a single one of them. But at least I knew they had good taste,eh?

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