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Has anyone read The Vanishing Act of Jodi Picoult?

  • Posted on August 15, 2010 at 4:33 pm

It got great reviews but I was appalled. It broke all the humanity rules. First, when the daughter (Julia, i think her name was) finds out she has been kidnapped by her own father she throws in such a strop in spite the fact that her father went to jail and had to deal with life in prison. Then, her husband (an alcoholic) who took care of the case, needed a drink in the most roughest moment of the trial and because of drinking a bit of alcohol Julia decides to leave him for his best friend. The stupid husband of hers didn’t even mind that, he even said he wouldn’t have chosen anyone else better than his best friend to take care of Julia. But Julia slept with her husband’s best friend BEFORE she found out her husband was on the booze again – if you can call that alcoholism. So all the people in Julia’s life had rough times BECAUSE of Julia and all she does throughout the novel is to nag-nag-nag. The most disappointing book I have ever read. It really made me sick.Anyone?

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