Title: Author quit before the ending
Product review: David Guterson is capable of much better writing than was evidenced in this book. While he wove an interesting and suspenseful tale, he committed the mortal sin of giving up on the ending. When authors do this, I always picture the author as being under intense pressure from the publisher to get the damn book finished. Was that the case here, or did Guterson's pathological cynicism, expressed through the book's characters, simply overcome him? What else but cynicism and a complete disregard for his readers would allow an author to tag on an ending that can only be described as a crappy copout - illogical, empty, and totally banal? If you don't mind investing hours of your time on a book only to feel like the author doesn't respect your time enough to finish the book, go ahead and read it.
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