But they read more like propaganda than anything else. For instance, Mr. Goingback is the winner of a Bram Stoker Award. Well, so is our main character. And a page is dedicated to Michael's proud daydreaming about the prized trophy. Hence other such pondering scenes seem to indicate that we're getting further glimpses into our author's head.
Pages dedicated to opinions on cartoon violence and church attendance come to mind.
But they never really add anything that makes me care about these people. Even when confronted with repeated elements of the supernatural, they continue to dismiss them, always endeavoring to figure out why somebody is going to all this trouble to make it seem like there's some kind of haunting. The final straw, which killed this book for me, comes when one of our characters, having already seen enough evidence to make her a believer, finds out how she can safeguard against the bad critters. She sets off to enact these very defenses. The character's reasoning in this is not ever revealed to us.