I don’t care for the Kardashians. I refuse to purchase magazines that feature them as cover models. I don’t watch any of their shows. I don’t buy their apps. I find them to be vapid, shallow, and insipid; with no talent and nothing to offer. I am apparently in the minority in holding that opinion. Which is fine, other people apparently enjoy them and they’re richer than I can even dream of ever being. But even I have to hand it to them in one respect…they are incredibly skilled at creating and maintaining one thing that many people want but few have: fame.
Suzanne Maretto, the main character of Joyce Maynard’s To Die For, desperately wants to be famous. She wants nothing more in life than to be a national news anchor, and she pursues that goal with relentless determination. Not even just like Jim Harbaugh levels of determination. Attacking each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind isn’t enough. She will do whatever it takes. If that means taking out her good-natured husband because he has the gall to want to start a family, well, that’s what it means. She begins an affair with an underprivileged, not especially bright high school student and convinces him and his friends to carry out the hit…
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