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Title: The book that never ends. . .
Review: I'll sum it up in two words: inaccessible and redundant. Arthur Phillips had a good idea, but I think he could have done it justice within the page constraints of a short story. For the first 100 pages, each chapter is basically a repetition of the chapter before with only slight variances. The language is pretentious, so much so that Phillips loses his meaning. I found myself rereading sentences, but finding them so obscure that I wasn't able to make much sense out of them. Also, there is little to no character development, and the characters aren't terribly established at the beginning, so you're not really sure if their behavior is in character or not. If you are simply dying to read this, get it from the library and don't waste your money.
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