Title: Am I Missing Something?
Product review: I was so looking forward to this book: A Gesture Life had simply me knocked me over, and I was a Chang-rae Lee fan for life. So I bought Native Speaker, and wasn't as impressed as the critics had been, but that was okay because A Gesture Life had made up for it. After hearing the reviews and NPR shows about Aloft, I was thrilled when I finally got it. So what's the problem?The book is patently unreadable. The prose makes no sense, the dialogue is stilted and banal, and the story line is impossible to follow. What a disappointment. The one line that rings true in the book is on page 74, when Lee is describing the mediocre writing skill of his character's son-in-law: "He's the sort of writer who can put together a nice-sounding sentence or two, and does it with feeling, but never quite gets to the point". That says it all for me.
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