Title: Preternaturally pretentious
Product review: I guess it's true that there's no accounting for taste. Some people apparently liked this book a lot, but I found it a confusing, boring mish-mash of ideas that failed to jell (or jellyfish) for me.The multiple points-of-view, timeline-manipulation and fourth-wall-breaking can work, but not in this book. In fact, I have the distinct impression that the author got her hands on a copy of Diderot's "Jacques the Fatalist" and decided to reprocess some of her half-baked ideas into a similar work. If so, it pales into transparency compared to Diderot brilliant work.The author's love-hate relationship with her characters (and readers, I think) pushed and pulled me from paragraph to paragraph, and left me cold.
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