This book should be retitled "The Ack"! It was dark (minus the humor), depressive, and the characters were wholly unlikable. I kept reading only because my beloved Bookmarks magazine gave it a four star rating. I was finally rewarded at the end of the book with a passage that I totally sympathized with, and swayed me to raise my rating by one star:
"I'm not very likable, am I?" "You're likable enough," said Vargina. "No, I mean, if I were the protagonist of a book or a movie, it would be hard to like me, to identify with me, right?" "I would never read a book like that, Milo. I can't think of anyone who would. 'There's no reason for it."
This book should be retitled "The Ack"! It was dark (minus the humor), depressive, and the characters were wholly unlikable. I kept reading only because my beloved Bookmarks magazine gave it a four star rating. I was finally rewarded at the end of the book with a passage that I totally sympathized with, and swayed me to raise my rating by one star:
My point exactly! Ack!