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Book Review of A Good and Happy Child

A Good and Happy Child
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This book is a study in how easy it is to get a novel published when you are a business 'executive' in NYC. You don't need believable characters or dialogue, you just need to write like you took a psychology class in college and are also a fan of 'Rosemary's Baby' and decided that, because you feel so empty in the office cubicle, you were going to write a book to impress your other 'business executive' friends. Never mind those actual talented writers who have everything at their fingers to write a much better novel than this, but have the sad misfortune of living in that wide open space between New York and California.

"Uninteresting", "unoriginal" and "unfortunate" are all words that could describe this "book". "Good" and "happy" are not.