Title: A real letdown
Review: Had to force myself to finish this clunker; ordinarily, I wouldn't have bothered, but I thought it would eventually get good; it was Moritz Thomsen, after all, and I'd thought that "Living Poor," his first book, was excellent and that parts of "The Saddest Pleasure" were just as good.I guess I just don't have much patience for old men who haven't gotten over their fathers (Pat Conroy's "My Losing Season" recently annoyed me to no end), and if I'd been the father of the self-indulgent and humorless young man depicted in this book I too would have been sorely tempted to smack him upside the head a time or two.The book is about the author's involvement in two catastrophes, so you might think at least the war story would be good. But you'd be dead wrong. It's just dull. The whole book is just an old man venting spleen. I prefer to remember Thomsen for "Living Poor."
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