Review: Hmmmmm
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 31, 2011
I honestly didn't even finish this book. I bought it based on the 5 star reviews it received, but seriously, it was so hard to follow & fit all the pieces together that I just gave up trying. Don't get me wrong, I understand what the author was trying to achieve by showing various veiw points in the form of short stories (I guess you could call them), but sadly for me it was a miss. I didn't even read the last chapter which is a pretty good indicator to people who know me that I think the book is not worth the effort. And for me, it wasn't.Update(Jan 2014): I have attempted this book again. I found the "speech" at the end by the President a bit trite, especially as it was essentially composed of mashed together pieces of other famous ( or not so famous speeches as the case may be) speeches by various mainly American presidents. It didn't give me a sense of ok, things are moving forward, rather it just sang of "I don't know where this is going really, so I will end it here with all these pretty words spoken by other people". No real conclusion & no sense of "ah, ok I see what the author did here". Just disappointment I had another crack at this book.