07-22-2007, 01:02 PM
I had thought I would just skip it -- didn't care, but what the heck, had to know how the story turned out. I won't spoil anything. My opinion; the first 350 pages or so were a waste of time and frankly just depressing; I think she could have conveyed the teen angst and requisite plot points in less than a third of that, and I look forward to them cutting all that nonsense out in the movie version. But once you get past that point, the various resolutions are mostly satisfying.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.