Can you guess this book from its one star review? ⭐️
Even well-loved, super-popular, award-winning books have their serious haters! 😂
This is historical fiction. All guesses are encouraged (no googling, though!).
This is meant to be fun. Don't be dismayed if you disagree with the review. Any spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors are copied directly from the review. I’ll post the correct answer tomorrow (13th May 2026).
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Tedious and pretentious, I consider this to be the ultimate “Oprah book.” (Not surprisingly, it was a reading group selection.) It has all the elements of Ms. Winfrey’s brand of rah-rah self esteem promotion, including a girl who heals herself of a congenital defect by determination, dammit; and pie-eyed “answers” to the meaning of life (we don’t really die, because our molecules live on and stuff!)
Fellow members of a vegetarian discussion forum have told me that [Author] is smugly dismissive of vegetarianism in her book [Title] (an account of the author’s odyssey raising her own food—including animals). I can’t comment on this, because I have not read [Author's] more recent work. However, I daresay it wouldn’t surprise me after seeing the attitude displayed in [this book]. After an especially odious description of a tribal hunt, the whiniest and most unsympathetic sister briefly becomes a vegetarian. Meanwhile, the wisest and most mature sister takes it all in stride with “intellectual” omni arguments which essentially boil down to It’s the Circle of Life and Plants Have Feelings Too. Come on!
I realize that this book is beloved by many; my book group couldn’t stop raving about it. Sorry, I just don’t get it.
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What do think? What's the book? (In this case, if you can think of only the title, but not the author, that's ok!)
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Can you guess this book from its one star review? ⭐️
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