The Color Of Mucus In Margaret Atwood's Gone Girl

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I am furious with myself for finishing this book. It was apparent within the first few pages that it was going to be grating with grammar mistakes and cookie cutter characters. What kept me reading was the interesting story idea. I truly wish someone else had written this book. The author hit it big with her first book, Gone Girl. (Disclosure – I wasn’t that big a fan of that book but it was at least readable) I imagine her publisher pushed her to crank out the next book and the result was characters so stereotyped that they were cartoons and prose written by running a finger down the pages of a thesaurus. One of the characters actually described herself as having “hair the color of mucus”. Really? What kind of mucus? Green, yellow,

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