Title: Promising story, almost unreadable book.
Product review: I haven't read any of Guterson's other novels, but this story seemed interesting. I thought I would like the book. How wrong I was.Guterson has been too lazy to use quotation marks on the dialog. Or perhaps he chose not to, for some unknown reason, perhaps just to be artsy. It serves no purpose other than to make the book almost unreadable. Half of the time you don't know if you're reading narration, dialog or characters' thoughts. This is very annoying but might have been forgivable if the book had had any other qualities, but unfortunately it's mostly pointless and very boring. The main reason I finished reading it was that it worked just as well as sleeping pills against my insomnia.A boring story and a writing style that seems designed to frustrate the reader make "Our Lady of the Forest" a novel best avoided.
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