Chinese Takeout : A Novel

Rating:
Summary: Hungry One Hour Later
Review: Pretty good book about a struggling artist and his community of cronies in NY. Not much happens which is probably about accurate. Nersesian does a good job describing what the artist is thinking and trying to put down on canvas, paper, etc. The self-destructive love story involving the addict was tragic and sad. Poor Or...looking for love in all the wrong places. I guess my complaint about the book is that not much happened. Like Chinese food, I was hungry one hour later.

Rating:
Summary: A waste of time
Review: Without exaggeration, one of the most inept, mediocre novels I've ever read. If you were just given the manuscript without knowing that it was a published novel, you would think that it was a first draft, written by a high school student. The prose is flat, the characters unsympathetic, the metaphors obvious, there's not one genuine, natural moment in the entire story, and the attempts at poetic imagery reek of a stylist obtuse enough not to realize how utterly bland and uninspired his work is. This author's a tourist. If you cherish your time as much as I do, don't waste it on this.