Title: Annoying
Product review: The first chapter of this book was great, but then it was quickly downhill. Complaints: the weirdness and dysfunction far outweighed the "crime" as *finally* revealed at the end; there is a familiarity in this book in tone, setting, and dysfunction to other books I've read lately -- the turn-of-the century, crazy sister who is made crazy because everyone ignores her because she is weird, ugly, plain, or too smart genre -- give it a rest; long stretches of this book are very clunky and suffer too much from first-novelitis; it just takes too long both in literal reading time and novel-time for the final "truths" to be made apparent to everyone; the unrelenting grimness of this book is a success on one level (in the ability to maintain tone) but doesn't make for an uplifting, insightful or entertaining read. I was most disappointed in this book. Parts of it are superb, but not nearly enough to carry its weight.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
