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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Book Review #35

Blonde: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates

I don't know why I keep giving Joyce the benefit of the doubt. For one thing, her writing is too much. It's unforgivably verbose. Save it, lady!

This particular gem is a biography of Norma Jean Baker, also known as Marilyn Monroe. If you can handle unnecessary defamation of character and a series of romances, divorces and abortions this may be the book for you.

I read about a hundred pages in bed one morning and was surprised to find that the rest of my day was plagued by melancholy. Source? Could only be one thing--Blonde.

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