Title: Why all the Accolades? This Book is a Bore!
Product review: A ghost story with the (supposed) intention of being more cerebral than those told around the campfire, its result is only a lugubrious tale of self-loathing. This book could have been cut by at least 100 pages and still would have taken too long. Mr. McFarland would have done better to drop the attempt at intellectual symbolism and just get on with the ghosts. More words were wasted on the central character's life-long mistakes than the actual spookiness (ha, ha) at hand. If he really wanted to write a successful story of spirits, he could learn a thing or two from Daphne DuMaurier (REBECCA) or Isabelle Allende (THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS).
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