Jonathan Canter

A decent read. The prose's simplicity is its best feature. Not simple with tightness, elegance and punch like Gogol or Hemingway, but lacking in extraneous adjectives, verbage, and pretention. I didn't find it particularly funny, there was only one laugh out loud in the whole book. It also broke my cardinal rule of writing about characters' dreams - I can't think of a more boring and obvious way to throw out symbolism or some other messaging. The story is a good one and the pace is excellent - it made me want to keep reading. It was not tiring, nor boring, and because the writing is straightforward one can read it fast with gusto.… (mehr)