Thinner Than Thou
by Kit Reed

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• ISBN13: 9780765311955
• Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Thinner Than Thou

Book Review: An effective subject matter that ultimately loses its grip.
Summary: 2 Stars

However, the story and its philosophy fall apart in the last third. Coincidences bring together all the main characters -- who had been all over the USA -- at the same time in an underexplained and thus wholly unbelievable manner. The ability of the main characters to go on the offensive in the end is so loose that the reader would have to have a great leap of faith to accept it in any way. The introduction of "Solutions" -- a thinly veiled Final Solution of sorts that appears out of nowhere as if written as an afterthought -- is also so undeveloped and obvious that it is entirely ineffective.

The subject matter also turns away from discussing what is wrong with society in regards to the demands on people to be a certain way and becomes a silly "conspiracy of the thin" that wallows in the idea that demands on the obese not to be gluttonous are nothing more than some kind of power-trip by the thin.

The ending is without a doubt the biggest let-down and worst written endings I have ever read. Like a film with no third act, the book takes an easy way out that gives it the feel of one of those after-school specials on TV designed for teenagers. One can simply understand how badly written it is by reading the last sentence of the novel. Had the book not fallen apart in the end, I would have easily recommended it. But, with its cheap conclusion and the defeatist, conspiratorial mindset it adopts in the end, I find no reason to recommend it to anybody who has more than just a curiousity in the book.

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