Title: overrated
Product review: What does one want from a running book? A good story? Good descriptions of running? This book is short on both. The characters are very flat, the story is trite and the running scenes are mediocre. Among runners it is very popular; I suppose this is because they are desirous of anything connected with their normally marginalized sport. I am a runner, so I can sympathize, but I can not concur in calling this book "good" or "great". It is written for runners by a runner; a runner who, can not write, I might add: a good high school writer could have come up with such slop. Poorly conceived, poorly written. It will make no waves outside of running circles. Only a novel which aspires to be great literature as well as great literature about running will be successful or worth reading. Borrow this from a friend or find it at the library, but dont expect "a cult classic". The classic novel on running is yet to be written.
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