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|title=The Adultery Club
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|buy=No
|borrow=No
|pages=356
|publisher=Pan
|date=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?
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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
|verb=replied
|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!
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