Title: An amateurish, downright boring, agonizing book.
Product review: A Man in Full is agonizing because you want so desperately to like it. Maybe only because you loved Bonfire so much. Maybe because of all the hype. Or maybe because it seems like it'll be a good story from the jacket. But read 100 pages - ugggh.A Man in Full wants to be so much, and tries so hard, but what you get is a bowl full of slop - like when you mixed up your chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream as a kid to make a syrupy soup. It's also very glib, which makes any book difficult to enjoy when the writing's not there to support it. And knowing, at page 100, that you have another 700 to endure - well, it's tortuous.Repetition - a device used so masterfully in DeLillo's Underworld - is so oversimplified and haphazard it seems psychotic. Not psychotic as in deep and meaningful and bolstering of story and character. But an awfully unbearable psychotic. Wholly unenjoyable.Don't give in to the hype. Re-read Bonfire instead.
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