Title: Titillating, creepy, then boring
Product review: I was anxious to read this novel, because it has been on the bestseller list for 44 weeks, which must be some kind of record. But I can't divine what people like about it. The first chapter is almost cheaply titillating and creepy, and then it becomes very very predictable. Alice Sebold, I think, is a keen observer of the obvious. "Nothing is revealed," as Bob Dylan once wrote. The NY Times reviewer gushed on about it being a heartfelt and keenly observed insight into family relationships. You can't prove that by me. It just goes to prove the old saying that one man's meat is another man's poisson, as a friend of mine used to say in France. This is definitely more fish than meat. (No disrespect intended to the fish.)
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