So disappointed -- I was looking forward to reading this so much. I made it to Page 62, but as I turned each page I was asking myself Why am I reading this? So I decided to give myself an early birthday present, and I'm kicking it to the curb.
What didn't like about it? A little hard to say. The words are all in the right order, they are all good words. There are characters, and they busily do character-y things, like masturbate, swear, etc etc. There seems to be a mystery: do the family members really have psychic powers, or is it all a scam? What really happened to the matriarch of the family, who died young, not long after their humiliation on national TV? But perhaps that's the problem: the words, the characters and the situation all feel a bit random, a bit by-the-numbers. (Sexually frustrated teenage boy, spying on his semi-clad teenage cousin! That's a good one! Randy old man, picking up lonely ladies at the supermarket! That'll work!)
In the immortal words of Chief Dan George ( Little Big Man, since you ask) "Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't."
What didn't like about it? A little hard to say. The words are all in the right order, they are all good words. There are characters, and they busily do character-y things, like masturbate, swear, etc etc. There seems to be a mystery: do the family members really have psychic powers, or is it all a scam? What really happened to the matriarch of the family, who died young, not long after their humiliation on national TV? But perhaps that's the problem: the words, the characters and the situation all feel a bit random, a bit by-the-numbers. (Sexually frustrated teenage boy, spying on his semi-clad teenage cousin! That's a good one! Randy old man, picking up lonely ladies at the supermarket! That'll work!)
In the immortal words of Chief Dan George ( Little Big Man, since you ask) "Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't."
