Review: Like the newspaper: If the delivery is bad...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2012
I am in the process of reading "Life Knocks".  It shouldn't be taking this long.  However,...It is a good story, parts of it are even excellent.  You can feel for the guy and enjoy the love story.  The difficult part comes when he makes his metaphors or similes.  Some of them are horrible.  They are ... funny, but at times they are terribly long and the funny borders on (or steps over) the absurd.  I get stuck on these parts; I don't want to read them; they are too numerous to simply skip over.  I don't like to put things down (pun intended), but I have found little difficulty in putting this down to pick up later when I have more energy.I am not going to say it was a bad book.  I gave it three stars because the story is excellent and, minus most of the metaphor/simile parts, it is decently written.  If you read the teaser for the book, like I did, you may buy it, like I did.Consider yourself warned.  You may like this type of writing; I don't.