Review: Interesting premise
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2010
The premise behind the story was very good and very quirkly, but the author's tone and style really turned me off, I'm sorry to say.  Even though I understand and acknowledge the fact that modern-day (young) people don't suffer from being mealy-mouthed, I really would have liked this much better if every 3rd word hadn't been a 4-letter word.  I'm really not exaggerating...  I'm not exactly mealy-mouthed myself, but I can honestly say I've never seen the 's-word' or the 'f-word' used as so many different parts of speech (often in a single sentence) or with quite the abandon that these characters use them.  I can tell that it's part of the characterization (the sole female character isn't quite as bad) but it's just overkill, plain and simple.  My vocabulary includes a lot of synonyms or alternate phrases for those words, and a little variety might have gone a long way.As interesting as the premise was, I'd suggest giving this a pass unless you happen to like extremely limited vocabulary and forms of expression.  Unfortunate, but it wasn't something that I could get past.