I truly do not understand how people are finding this a good book. He is good enough to distract the reader from the repetitiveness of the phrasing and emptiness of the narrative. He somehow made this tedious, pointless novel seem as if it were going somewhere. Taylorson's narrative is what kept me hooked. This makes for a long, slow read that goes nowhere. Characters tell the same story or give the same details repeatedly in different settings. Another thing that I found extraordinarily tedious is the author's tendency to repeat details. In addition to the unnecessary detail, the dialogue and descriptions contain trite phrases: Her / his eyes looked "suspiciously wet."/ His or her "eyebrows raised." These phrases are repeated throughout the book. I didn't realize until I reached the 7-hour mark that no plot had developed. There's nothing interesting about a character picking up a napkin, folding it, placing it on a tray, putting a flower on a tray, lifting the tray, walking up the stairs, knocking on the door, etc.-the entire narrative is like this. I am all for realism, but the level of detail in this story is excruciating. It is as if Lowell wrote a book that simply explains what characters are doing for 8 hours straight.
This story has no plot and several plots threads at the same time.
But I think the reviews for this book are unwarranted. I rarely leave reviews, especially negative ones.
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