Title: This poor, poor book
Review: This poor, poor book is dying to be a movie. It's just struggling to exist as a novel on a bookshelf when it has been deformed by a few significant major-motion-picture-style characteristics. First, the text is littered with trivial detail. Second, there is an abundance of dialogue. (These two combined make some pages read like parts of a script, stage directions and lines.) Third, the graphic sex. Fourth, the lack of a single defining plot point. The premise of the book is extremely clever, diligently crafted abd explained and well-held, but the horrifically expository writing (think the first fifteen pages of any Baby Sitter's Club novel) distracts from the central ideas and questions the book should raise. Not to mention that Niffenegger's theme of comparing her two characters to Odysseus and Penelope is presumptuous and downright cocky!
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