Title: Reading and reading and never getting anywhere
Product review: Upon a friend's rave review of this book, I immediately ordered it. What a dissapointment. This novel is nothing more than a minute by minute, day by day catalog of what a somewhat dimwitted little boy does at the "County Home" while his aunt and uncle attempt to watch over him. The setting is murkily conceived at best, and the characters are nothing more than opportunities for "stories" to happen. Is this "Home" a prison? Is it a half-way house? Is it a mental hospital? Is it a home for the maimed and deformed? I don't know...and I don't think the author does either. There is no plot; there is no direction, and after 200+ pages, I lost interest in even finishing.
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