Treasure Island!!!

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"When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at the Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. ... Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its core values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned"--Book jacket flap.

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Just OK submitted by ashflowtuff on July 19, 2012, 12:34pm I really liked the first few chapters of this book. It got me laughing out loud and I was interested where the story was going to go. Unfortunately, it went nowhere really. Which, actually, I don't mind in a book, except that the main character was so obnoxious that it was hard to continue to stand her. The whole time I kept thinking that she is so terrible that her revelation and change has to come soon, but in the end it is ambiguous whether she experienced any growth and anyway it was too little too late for me.