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Book Review of The Post-Birthday World

The Post-Birthday World
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Had a love/hate feeling towards this book. The plot and story are so interesting, but I DESPISE Lionel Shriver's pretentious style of writing that is innundated (!!) and interspersed with as many GRE vocabulary words as possible (so my sentence was premeditated and an example of how she writes). Sorry, but I was really annoyed by her "look at how smart I am!) style of writing- so annoyed that I couldn't focus on the story itself. TOO BAD because from what I could read, the characters were great, the story was both funny and sad, and the "what if?" theme is so "human".