Review: A decent story, not that well written
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2013
Although the story being told in this book is actually fairly decent, it's held back by the way in which it's told. Presented entirely in the first person, the writing can at times be difficult to slog through. Pretty much everything is told with declarative statement (I did this, I did that, he said this, etc), you never get any sense of the character's feelings.The main character is immediately presented as accident-prone, and spends the book moving the plot along by constantly screwing up. He has 4 companions with him, but you never really get much sense of who they are.  They never get to speak in their own words. You only get summaries of what they said (Bob told me that..., never what Bob actually said.)As I said, the story itself is fairly decent. It would actually work well as a movie. As a book though, the writing style makes it difficult to recommend.