Monday, November 28, 2011

American Nightmare

I found this book very hard to read. The writing seemed choppy and forced.  It was a great story underneath but the whole thing to me felt like the author was shoveling it out super fast in order not to forget something or so he did not miss anything.  But that created a jumbled mess especially toward the end.  I had to repeatedly re-read whole sections and try to make sense of who was doing what to whom.  There were words missing out of sentences (that may be a computer issue- I don't know) and some words that were used made NO sense at all in the context.  It reminded me of when one of my kids tries to tell me something at the dinner table.  They will take a deep breath, open their mouth and just start spewing out words super fast so they can get it all out in that one breath.  If the author had slowed down, taken a breath, and then continued to write, it would have been a great story.  It had a good foundation but lacked much else on top of that.

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