Title: Lacks depth
Review: The characters, plot, and themes lack any sort of interesting, analytical depth that makes a book worth reading. Chabon is consistently infatuated with the extreme breadth of his vocabulary, which is quite impressive but is not enough to carry a book or make a book "great." While reading this gigantic paperweight of a novel, I also read a book by Graham Greene and a handful of short stories by Flannery O'Conner just so that I wouldn't forget WHY I enjoy reading. I slogged through to the end and found that I had held out hope only to be left still wanting something else.
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