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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, I have to chime in here though I’m probably too late for anyone to read this.

I just read Strangers and I thought it was the biggest waste of paper I've ever read. I read it on the heels of “You could make this place beautiful” by Maggie Smith. Smith’s work was overly poetic, with drama and insufferable melodramatic language and repetition where none was called for. I thought maybe it was like a 6/10.

Then I read Strangers. I am certain that my middle schooler could write a better book than this. She’s had more depth and introspection than this writer since kindergarten. Good god, the writing was awful. I liked that it was straightforward but it gave zero insight into what was going on in any human’s brain or life. Like, these are not fictional characters and yet you and your ex husband are STILL this one dimensional? Completely insufferable. Are all wealthy people like this? It was complete garbage, the reader could get no sense of who this woman was as a person (other than a milquetoast dullard), and even from her perspective she came off as shallow, unengaged mother. Good christ, she cannot write.

I fully understand her ex is a narcissist, but that’s because I’m smart… not because she was able to come to that conclusion herself. She’s too busy being stupid and confused.

Am I going crazy here?! It was awful! [/quote]

Sounds like jealousy to me to get so worked up. It’s one thing to criticize part of a book, it’s another to wildly trash it. [/quote]

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