Review: Author’s Running and Running, On and On
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
Okay, so I took the dare Knucklenuck made in his review of this book.  I downloaded it and read it in about four hours.  That’s all it took because I skipped entire pages of repetitious details.  I should have taken that reviewer’s advice and avoided the book.  Here’s why…The story grabbed my attention immediately, then dissolved into details of the Seattle sex trade.  The story of Isabel is put on hold (until the end of the book) while the reader is taken on a tour of police stations, city streets, CD music, and the attire worn by various passing people.  The author successfully expanded a ten-page short story into a novel-length book by inserting multiple repetitions of descriptions, and instructions, and descriptions, and instructions, and descript…… (You get the idea).  The leader devised a plan, then repeated the details as he shared the plan with his team; the plan is repeated again to make sure everyone is in place, and it is repeated once again as the plan goes into action.  Does the author have short-term memory loss?  Far too much of the plot went astray amidst the proliferation of nuisance details and needless repetitions.Mark says his book is fiction, but it is handled as if it were fact.  So which is it?  If this is fiction, then how much information should I believe regarding prostitution in Seattle, efforts to help the girls involved, or police attitudes toward pimps?  He admits starting out to write an “entertainment” book and says he does not want to use it as a pulpit, but he ends up with a super-loquacious expose which is neither entertaining nor a helpful attack on sex trade.Another problem:  There is no such word in the English language as “alright,” but it is used repeatedly in descriptions and conversation.I give the book one star because that’s the only way Amazon allows me to post this review.