Review: Not For Me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
Unfortunately, this novel is just not for me.  I was intrigued by the premise, and I really enjoyed the back and forth nature of the narration, where the narrator tells readers about his life at 14 and then switches to his current life, but the language and humor isn't my style.King Henry Price has had a difficult life, and I understand the angst and hatred he carries, but his obsession with sex, the middle finger, and words for certain body parts, both male and female, put me off of the story as a whole. Now, I do think the novel is very well written, and the characterization is also done very well.  In fact, King Henry is probably more true to life than I care to admit, but he also isn't someone I'd surround myself with in real life, so listening to him cuss and make lude and crude comments throughout was much more than I could handle. Maybe I should have realized this might be the case based on the title, but I really wasn't thinking "foul mouth" as in lude and crude to the level that this novel takes it.  A little bit of this is always tolerable and can even be funny, but King Henry just takes it over the top and it was too much for me