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|title=The Adultery Club
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|pages=356
|publisher=Pan
|date=5 Jan January 2007
|isbn=978-0330445207
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I am disappointed to reveal that yet another chick-lit novel focusing on the hackneyed Eternal Triangle has hit our bookshelves. Worse, the author is a columnist in a national newspaper, large sections of which are aimed at the female demographic. Do I hear a collective sigh?
What happens in between is only mildly interesting and even at the princely sum of £2.96 (Tesco) I felt too high a price to pay. How it took 356 pages to reach its unsatisfactory conclusion is as beyond me as is the Meaning of Life.
We also have a review of [[The Wife Who Ran Away by Tess Stimson]].
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|name=Jill
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|comment= Malinche takes him back him back and does a Bobbitt on him? That might have been worth 356 pages?! Welcome to Bookbag Kerry.
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I still don't quite see why you disliked it so much? Because it's the same old story? But all genre books are pretty much the same old story, aren't they?
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|name=Kerry
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|comment= Oh if only! Thanks Jill!
Magda, I could not agree with you more. I think one of the greatest difficulties faced by authors today is to successfully re-work the old genres. My personal bugbear with this book was not just its total lack of originality in the bones of the tale (the eternal triangle), but the way it was told. In places, the author had the cheek to use several email Round Robins. And I mean several.
|name=Sue
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|comment= Yes, I found a couple of those stories with a quick surf. They seem to be quite common in blogs.
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|name=celtictotty
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|comment= loved the book, it either makes you want to join or makes you think twice about joining! }}{{comment|name=Piers Meagher|verb=said|comment= I am disappointed to reveal that yet another man-hating book review focusing on the hackneyed "Aren't Men Just Terrible" viewpoint has hit our website. Worse, the author of the review is a woman who is married, presumably to a man, cowed and broken no doubt, but of the male demographic. Do I hear a collective chuckle? A chick-lit book that contains sex and relationships - shock, horror! It's not Literature, it's chick lit - take it for what it is not what you might want it to be. The reviewer seems to believe that by writing about adultery that the author has betrayed all of woman-kind - base vile, pernicious Quisling. She is a she - why has she not stuck to the code? All men are bastards and women have never done anything wrong ever - double the traitor. She has written in a masculine style - whatever next? The coming of the apocalypse beckons - is that a trumpet I hear? "Florid" - Masculine???????? She has written about the violation of the sanctity of marriage - into the bin goes Dr Zhivago. The Iliad - what a waste of time! Lady Chatterley's Lover - should have watched paint dry. "The grown-up thing to do" - what a staggering oversimplification of the human condition. "Psychological profile" - the reviewer's talents know no bounds - cf. "rampant, panting, hormone-filled, damp-gusseted vamp" - old, wheezing, hormone replacement, embittered and twisted crone. This merely serves as a confirmation of the reviewer's determination for all young sexually adventurous women to be caricatured. T here is only one conclusion to this: Jealousy. I never did that so you shouldn't either, and I shall use my superior age, not to be confused with maturity, to snigger at you. In closing - don't listen to this woman of dubious intelligence. Her review is no more than prejudice packaged as erudition, fight for truth, battle for liberty, free thought, rage against the machine and equality for all! This reviewer will not survive the revolution. P.S. A "story" is a (n) not an (adj) }}{{comment|name=Kerry|verb=replied|comment= Piers, thank you for your comments. I am struck by the idea that you perhaps have not read ''The Adultery Club''. Maybe I am mistaken. I am, in any event, delighted you felt strongly enough to contribute at such length! I hope you feel as enthusiastic and fervent about my other reviews and those of my fellow critics here at Bookbag; we like to show that we have a balanced perspective and welcome every kind of viewpoint.
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