Title: Hope Springs...Artificial
Product review: I thought this book was frustratingly vague. It didn't seem so much a way to force the reader to use his/her imagination as it did more a limited effort on the part of the author to tell a complete, coherent story. The endless descriptions were torpid. Worst of all, most scenes ended in a total cop-out. So, whatever they desperately needed, they just seemed to find, like the cache of food when they were starving. Huh? I guess it was just easier to finish the book that way. And the ending? This wonderful family just happened to be right there when the kid needed them? With the exception of a couple of scenes (the people in the basement or the fate of the mother, for example), it just wasn't very good. If that was truly the real world, the kid would have ended up as a catamite or someone's dinner.
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