Title: Too Difficult to get Into
Product review: This novel is written in third person present tense (like reading stage directions) with a fly on the wall perspective. I made it through three family dinners where the family intermittedly discusses the possiblity that their possibly just overly flamboyant mother may be insane and social philosophy (all the while bemoaning the position that most of the middle classes and superior cannot truly divest themselves of their self importance enough to discuss it objectively).The third dinner was all that I could take and I quit about a hundred pages in. This won the Los Angeles Times award so it's somebody's bag, but not mine. I found absolutely no resemblance between Drabble's writing style and Dickens', as has been suggested. I can think of no other author to compare it to except possibly Fitzgerald or Conrad (without the descriptiveness).
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