Title: Skip it and read Minotaur
Review: You'd be crazy not to fall in love with Sherrill's first book, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. In his sophomore novel-writing effort, however, Sherrill falls short. The writing style hasn't changed much (thankfully), but the characters' interaction/dialogue always seems to teeter between believability and forced plot.The characters are never fully developed with exception to the main character, Benny, who is developed perhaps too much in ways not relevant to the story, such as his masturbatory patterns and having a keen eye for witnessing lewd acts.One strange chapter I'm still trying to figure out why Sherrill's editor left in: Benny reminisces about bluegrass music for 4 pages, a complete non sequitur in the story. I skipped right over most of that...and I really should have done so with the rest of the book.
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