In fairness, once I brought up the topic a few of my classmates echoed my discomfort. But for some reason, almost all the book discussions started out in the positive-to-gushy range, and it's hard to be the first dissenting voice on a fifteen-comment-long praisefest. It took a book this bad before I was ready to jump in with guns blazing. Doesn't explain the radio silence from teacher's guides and reviewers, though.
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Date: 2008-05-17 08:50 am (UTC)