Review: Did Nothing For Me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 18, 2011
After reading The Survival of Marvin Baines I read the comments others had posted on Amazon. I was surprised by the overly positive reviews. The story line has potential and in the hands of writers like John Irving or Anne Tyler it could have lived up to the promotional. I found it trite, far from humorous and vaguely entertaining. Marvin, with his company of two dimensional characters, exchange banter which some might find funny. I found the attempt shallow. Only in the fourth section of the book when the path of a former heart throb, Janice Cromer, crosses with Marvin's does the story gain momentum. Perhaps the story should have started here and worked backwards to create anticipation and interest. I received a complimentary copy of this book in order to review it.