“I enjoyed that the superficiality of this book was mirrored by its setting: Los Angeles. For Letham a place is one of the characters. Something about the way this was written made my mind imagine each character sitting inside their car on the freeway at rush hour, moving forward a bit, stopping, looking around at what other people are doing a bit, talking on their phone, listening to music, and possibly going backwards a bit when choosing the wrong lane to change into. It seemed that characters only interacted in ones and twos, never in large groups and the conflict was strange enough for Letham, but truly only secondary and ultimately uncooperative with the dialogue. Maybe he did need a paycheck as other reviewers suggest or maybe he got tired of being described the same way by the same people. Much like the characters in this book: setting events in motion to produce a transformation....can that really be called a transformation? ”
incacat wrote this review Tuesday, December 16 2008.
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