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Title: Sophisticated idea, mediocre execution
Review: Sophisticated idea; mediocre execution. Everything is overstated and hammered home and the novel thus loses the promised elegance of the idea and becomes simply another trite thriller. But maybe that was Colapinto's aim? Whole idioms are set up nicely - the idea of a modern rural paradise being destroyed by an Apple Notebook is both funny and clever, but Colapinto overdraws this to the point where he seems to be condescending to the reader's intelligence and attention span (which he does throughout). And by the way, just because the thing that is stolen is a book does not make it a `literary' thriller.
