Review: Slow, slower, slowest
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 29, 2013
Giving this book 3 stars is being generous. If the writer had trimmed at least 50% of it, it would probably have come close to being a 5 star. It was like reading a diary or maybe a daily accounting of the life of a dying man. Some of the scenes were stilted and like "canned" conversation. I won't even go into the tremendous amount of errors. Since the book moved at the pace of a snail, I really got to where I didn't even care. The relationships between various characters were sometimes not even believable that people really acted that way. Sometimes it seemed as if the writer really didn't know enough about the subject, so I think there was a lot of "literary license" taken. I honestly have to say this was the hardest book I have had to read in a very long time that wasn't a non-fiction. The whole concept of the book subject matter was good but way, way too much dialog. The hard part was that if I tried to skim over to go faster, I'd suddenly come across something and think, "when did that happen or what happened, et." Then I'd have to go back and read until I found out so things would make sense. If I find a book by this writer that's as long as this one I will steer clear.