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Review title: Flawed First Novel
Product review: I wanted to like this novel more . . . I desperately hoped that it would be good enough to justify reading some of his later works--- But I just wasn't that impressed. His control of prose was good. I liked his metaphors [e.g., describing a suburban house's garden-hose as a "French horn" hung on the house]. But the main character was sniveling, weak and unlikeable. I felt as much antipathty toward him as his father did--and I suspect that that wasn't the author's intent.Maybe I'm too "old-fashioned" in my literary tastes--but a girl named "Phlox," the many celebrations of "alternative sexual drives," the adolescent urges to "shock" all left me cold.Too bad.I really wanted to like him more--or, if not like him, than admire his talent to such an extent that it would overcome my personal repugnance to him as a man. But, alas, such was not the case.
