content: The first chapter of this novel bored me to tears. But, since it is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, I pressed on. I thought it would get better.It didn't.Most of the characters in this book are not even relatively believable. They are so absurd and unordinary that you can't for one second take any of them seriously. Which, I guess, was supposed to make the book humorous. In my opinion, it was just ridiculous.The worst part of the book was the lack of plot. The story seems to be going nowhere until you get a hundred pages into the book--even then, the plot is questionable. It is really very, very boring.I really don't see how this book won a Pulitzer Prize.