Review: Painfully, comically awful
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2014
I started reading this book and immediately my jaw dropped. I've read bad writing before but never one so invested with effort. It's obvious the author tried hard to be different and she succeeded, but not in a good way. Let me demonstrate with this quote:"And here she trailed off, unable--unwilling--to connect the dots, like the dry, splintering, weatherbeaten crossties of a railroad track winnowing away into the cloud-swept, gravelly distance, stretching into a void she refused to look into, for dread of what she might see there, waiting at the terminus."The aptly titled "Suicide Ride" goes on like this from start to finish--a staccato, simile-infested nonsense.  There might be a story in there somewhere but it gets lost under the overwrought and contrived language. The book reads like a parody of itself, but sadly without a trace of humor.To finish in a style matching this novel: The prose rolls and tumbles like a bloated corpse in turgid waters.