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Title: Another vote for "boring, stupid, and trite"
Review: I had to force myself to finish it. It wasn't just that I disliked and felt no empathy with the characters (I didn't like Hannibal Lecter, either...well, actually by the end of "Hannibal," I did sympathize with him). Homes simply failed to tell a story. The book felt like a Robert Altman movie, only more disjointed. There's no motivation behind anything anyone does, and by the time I was halfway through, I couldn't care what happened next.. Second, the book was trite. This is territory that's been covered by Updike and Cheever, but much better. Finally, the book lacks credibilty: in this age of self-help, with support groups, videos, websites, and books availble without limit, it's hard to believe that adults could careen so impulsively and cluelessly from one inept misadventure to another.
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