Title: Big disappointment
Review: I have been a devoted fan of Mr Caputo since I read The Voyage years ago.... one of my all time favorite books. I've since read most of his other work and much of it has been excellent. Rumor of War, Acts of Faith, Crossers, Means of Escape. But this one was a real disappointment. A truly disjointed and haphazard work. It was so utterly boring at times I found myself frequently flipping ahead several pages to try to find some reason to stay with it. Initially I thought it felt like a rough draft of something - unfinished - but now I'm struggling to think of any redeeming qualities at all. The main character, Starkmann, is so pathetic - and not just after his tour in Vietnam either. Right from the start the guy is such a hopeless dolt. How Caputo thought he could hang an entire novel around this dullard is beyond me.
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