Title: Slow, unlikely, and mostly uninteresting story
Product review: What Michael Cunningham does best in this book is the little things. Similes and metaphors and various details are almost always right on. The story itself, told in alternating first persons, spends most of its time telling us about the characters, especially toward the end. It seems we have four psychologists who do very little other than analyze themselves and the others. First, people don't analyze themselves or others nearly to this degree. Second, the characters actually do very little when not analyzing.Two other issues are the improbable three-way love affair and Bobby's indefinable sexual orientation.The worst problem of all is that this is a character-driven novel and I just didn't care about what happed to any of the characters.
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