Title: If you love mindless navel-gazing, this book's for you!
Review: This book reads like a novel-length interview with Humbert Humbert on NPR's "The Next Big Thing" (for which a more accurate title would be "The Next Big Nothing")--hardly a match made in heaven! Most people--one would hope!--eventually outgrow the main character's adolescent self-absorption. Why any reader--or for that matter, any author--would want to waste their time vicariously reliving such a pompously uninteresting stage of life for an entire novel is a mystery. What's no mystery is why this character was so unpopular in high school and throughout his life: he's a crashing bore. As this book illustrates all too well, a facility with words does not necessarily mean you have anything of interest to say--unless you happen to find self-important whining endlessly fascinating.
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