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The Bad Girl: A Novel
by Mario Vargas Llosa
from Picador
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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It Just Reads Awful 
The plot is not bad, it has all the elements necessary to make it memorable and draw the reader in yet, in its English version the prose is lackluster and discombobulated. In some passages it is so painful to read that I just skipped over.
Another thing that bothered me so, given this is a novel about a translator/interpreter Ms. Grossman should have been careful about translating the names of places, organizations, and things that were essential to the characters (Peruvian)and to those of us who speak... more info
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Blah blah the bad girl 
That's it, blah blah the bad girl, blah blah the bad girl until she mercifully, for the reader, dies and the novel ends with banal musings. How anyone in their right mind could review this positively is beyond me. I know its hard to find an accurate professional review, I know "de gustibus non est disputandum," but even the non-professionl reviewers here on Amazon, I really abhor the ones who think I need to read a long, detailed summary of the story, can't tell the forest from the trees.
This is... more info
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Very little about a bad girl, Too much about revolution 
Anybody remember the tv show The Wonder Years? Remember the science teacher that spoke in a monotone and bored his class to death? This is what this novel makes me think of. It is literally a biography of the years 1950 and on with just a mention of a story here and there. There is paragraph after paragraph of the revolution or the sixties and who is dying and who is president and is literally "1954 blah blah blah and 1960 blah blah blah." Only occasionally do you get a glimpse of the bad girl. The main... more info
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An enjoyable romp through the world
This novel paints a panoramic history of four decades of South American and European life as the story traces Ricardo's love for "the bad girl." The characters are not particularly complex, and I never really believed the love story, but I really enjoyed the romp through the world.
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