Not Worth Catching

I see that this book has won the esteemed European Union Prize for Literature. Remind me not to take their recommendations in the future. Maybe it's just me? But I hated every page of this dud. First of all, the author is a gorgeous, svelte woman. Seriously, looks like she should be modeling for Boden. That isn't hate-worthy, but she obviously has a deep-seated prejudice against those who aren't similarly beautiful. Especially in the area of padding. I couldn't begin to count the number of times she described some undesirable character as "fat", "pudgy", "pig". It became a game to me to try to find these descriptors, and Lovely and Lissome Lana didn't disappoint. The obvious judgment aside, how about learning some new words? There's this handy thing called a "thesaurus" which can fix you right up, girlfriend. How about "corpulent", "porcine", "heavy", or "husky"? Or let's even stretch our minds (and characters) further and come up with some other ways to describe people? How about "skinny"? "Withered"? Or "leathery", "grumpy", "jocular", "mumbling", "crusty" or "gangly"? There is a whole world out there that doesn't have to be described as fat. The mother was disgusting and fat. The annoying moms on the beach were fat. The creepy man was fat. Get. Over. Yourself. Beyond this, the characters in the book were completely unlikeable and I was hoping they'd have a car accident and we'd be done with the whole thing asap. Alas, I had to read to the end. What a colossal waste of time.