People love this book. They praise it and adore it and share it. 
 I know that this is a story about a real girl. I know all the reasons why I should like it. But I just didn't. 
 I don't want to sound ignorant or superficial, but I didn't feel good when reading it. I didn't feel anything in my heart or mind, and so what good would reading it do me? 
 As you read, you watch Alice fall deeper and deeper into this pit, and I don't enjoy that. It's like watching it happen to a friend; I don't want to watch it happen to a friend. So that's why I stopped reading it. It was just sad and lonely.