Rating: 
Summary: A Disappointment
Review: This is the first Doig novel I've ever read, and I'm afraid it will take a great deal to get me to try him again. This book was a real disappointment - from the characters I had a hard time caring about to the unbelievable dialogue. Who talks like that? Seattle may be oh, so hip, but pu-lease! Doig throws in so many one-liners and cultural references, it's like listening to a Dennis Miller routine. Yeah, I get 'em - it just becomes ridiculous after a while. I almost threw the book down when I came to the line "I came, I saw the paperwork, I don't concur." Yuck.The best parts where those describing the land - Montana, Seattle, Alaska. The book was good enough to get me through a flight to D.C. and back, but to compare this writer to Wallace Stegner causes me to wince.
Rating: 
Summary: My first Doig
Review: Whether its because I'm a fifty-two year old guy who has had to deal with remarkably similar circumstances of ashes and irony, a distant daughter, moving on in life (to the Northwest)- I was able to look beyond the occasional too-hip dialogue and sometimes hyperbolic character or two and become unexpectedly engaged. The trek into the "Bob" was a joy.
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