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Review title: Excellent short story, exhausting novel
Product review: After the 1st couple of chapters, I got the concept of the novel and was curious to see where the author would take it. Upon reading the last page, I found out he only took it as far as the first couple of chapters.This book is exhausting, having little exploration or depth to an idea or theme. Instead, the Brockmeier just repeats ideas over and over again, without digging deep into the characters. One of the characters, Minny, feels like she'll never know anyone deeply or intimately. At the end of the read, I felt the same way about the characters in the book or the themes.Do yourself a favor if you want to read this: don't buy, get it from the library, read the first 50 pages, and then promptly quit.Originally this was a short story and would have held up well by itself. However, since there's more money in selling novels than stories, they had to publish the thing that drug on and on...like the protoganist's endless hike through the snow.
