Reading this book was a little like watching compelling footage of a massive train wreck: I knew it was going to end very badly for everyone involved, but I couldn't turn away. I repeatedly asked myself, "Why am I reading something this depressing?" The answer was always the same: the characters sucked me in, and I had to see how it would all pan out. The multiple intersecting story lines were well stitched together, and the author did a great job of capturing the voices of multiple individuals within the larger collective narrative. Nonetheless, this is not for a reader who wants something lighthearted! A difficult one to review this. Very well written and an enjoyable read. Funny in the first half but getting more serious in the second, while ending in despair, which is part of the issue I have with this novel: in the beginning you are invited to laugh at these crazy characters but at the end you have to take them 100% serious in what becomes almost a pamphlet against modern society. The author's style is so convincing that he almost pulls off this tour de force. Almost, but not quite.
Do You like book As God Commands (2006)?
This was a depressing book where horrible things happen.
—babyluv
