Title: Frustrating, yes. Unique, yes. Like it, not so much.
Product review: It's interesting to read the glowing reviews of this book. I almost feel like I missed something. I don't think I did.Mr. Ryder is a completely unsympathetic character. There is nothing to hold on to and no reason to care about him. If this were a character study alone, this might be enought to move you through it, but as the protaganist within in a maze of metaphor, I needed him to pull me through. Someone that I at least had some interest in or found at all redeming. I kept thinking "who cares what happens to you in your shallow self-centered world." And that made it very difficult to "get" the book as a whole or even make it to the end.I found it wholely unsastisfying and much because I had the feeling that Mr. Ryder was nothing more than a terrible cad.
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