Thursday, September 17, 2015

A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY by Lauren Grodstein

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has three and a half stars on average (out of five) from 336 (and counting?) customer reviews.
I'm only on page 10 so I can't verify anything that anyone's stance on the book.
But the top voted-helpful reviews range from "huh?" to "are you sure" to "DAMN YOU!".  One reviewer uses the word "gripping" like 3 times and then details THE ENTIRE DAMN STORY ("DAMN YOU!").  One reviewer sounds like a kindergarten teacher who thinks everything is an afterschool special...then there's one who sounds EXTREMELY un-enthusiastic about the book then rates it four stars (???), and a couple others toward the bottom of the list and I don't even know if I read them because they all sound so generic and uninformative...!!!  If I elected to view all customer reviews and sorted by "newest" instead of "most helpful", I'm sure I'd find several reviews that only have 5 words.  "Love it, highly recommended!" or "You gotta read this, it was really good!" or "dumb.  I can't even believe they published it"...and so and so on...in other words, people that are too dumb to know what they're thinking and thus write it down!  If you can't think, don't write.  Simple as that.  The phrase "learn to talk" is kind of overused given how talking is a reflection of thought and so many people don't know how to think and should thus never speak!!!

Ugh...

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