Title: I Actually Did Put the Book Down Several Times
Product review: I put this book down a few times--when I fell asleep reading it. I really wanted to like this book. I got it on special order from my bookstore. The story is just not alive. The book is totally without humor. The characters who appear as neighbors in the book are hard to differentiate. The dialogue is wooden. Events seem to live in a timeless, de-natured way in the author's memory. They do not unfold in the book. There is a lack of energy about the whole thing. It is just not very interesting. The book is in no way like Angela's Ashes. If Harry Bernstein had been sixty-six instead of ninety-six would this book have been published based on its merits? I am sure it would not have been.
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