Review: i sloughed my way through
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2013
after the fantastic endorsement in the forward by Daniel Pyle you would have thought this was the world's greatest work of fiction in all of history.  I read the kindle edition all 4 books in one continuous format.  I really wanted to love this book and parts of it are genius, beautiful, haunting and amazing.  But...  there's too many characters with names that don't fit their personality, Billy the professor?  odd runs of information that lead no where, tangents that just confuse you.  don't get me wrong, i love long books with lots of characters and converging storylines but this is "almost" a train wreck.  Maybe, all in all, it's just too damn long.  Maybe if I'd read each book separately, with a year between each one i would not have felt like i was sloughing my way through a mile of mud.  and on that point.... i am all for blood and guts and horror, graphic descriptions?  sign me up!  but this book may hold the all time record of the most use of the world "pus" or "pustules".  after a while you can't even see the story as a whole for each little erupting blood pustule.  it was too much.  too much gore, too many characters that weren't fleshed out well enough to remember them, too many little factoids that did nothing to enhance the storyline.  it was too long.  then again, i read every word.  Duperre, a little brevity next time?  please?