Well

Rating:
Summary: Lazy Author
Review: This book is fiction, but is not really a novel. It's a scatterbrain scattershot approach to fiction that is more confusing than enlightening. If this book were television, it'd be "Saturday Night Live" with series of sketches rather than a coherent tale told by an author. Some individual scenes from the book are interesting such as the guy whose ex-girlfriend is trying to save his soul while his girlfriend is going crazy that she's putting moves on her man. However, many scenes drag on interminably such as the funeral for a boxer following a nebulous array of funeral attendees. "Well" interesting for a time, but ultimately is confusing, pointless and not worth reading. Its best quality is that it is short with many blank pages inflating a flimsy fictional attempt. Other reviews have called McIntosh a prodigy. For me, he seems lazy, unable to be bothered with details like plot or character development. The table of contents is almost a chapter unto itself with long quotations that come across as pretentious and self-indulgent. If you like a book that reads like the literary equivalent to an arty television commercial, McIntosh will have appeal. This is mostly package and very little substance. Next!

Rating:
Summary: Lazy Author
Review: This book is fiction, but is not really a novel. It's a scatterbrain scattershot approach to fiction that is more confusing than enlightening. If this book were television, it'd be "Saturday Night Live" with series of sketches rather than a coherent tale told by an author. Some individual scenes from the book are interesting such as the guy whose ex-girlfriend is trying to save his soul while his girlfriend is going crazy that she's putting moves on her man. However, many scenes drag on interminably such as the funeral for a boxer following a nebulous array of funeral attendees. "Well" interesting for a time, but ultimately is confusing, pointless and not worth reading. Its best quality is that it is short with many blank pages inflating a flimsy fictional attempt. Other reviews have called McIntosh a prodigy. For me, he seems lazy, unable to be bothered with details like plot or character development. The table of contents is almost a chapter unto itself with long quotations that come across as pretentious and self-indulgent. If you like a book that reads like the literary equivalent to an arty television commercial, McIntosh will have appeal. This is mostly package and very little substance. Next!

Rating:
Summary: Lazy Author
Review: This book is fiction, but is not really a novel. It's a scatterbrain scattershot approach to fiction that is more confusing than enlightening. If this book were television, it'd be "Saturday Night Live" with series of sketches rather than a coherent tale told by an author. Some individual scenes from the book are interesting such as the guy whose ex-girlfriend is trying to save his soul while his girlfriend is going crazy that she's putting moves on her man. However, many scenes drag on interminably such as the funeral for a boxer following a nebulous array of funeral attendees. "Well" interesting for a time, but ultimately is confusing, pointless and not worth reading. Its best quality is that it is short with many blank pages inflating a flimsy fictional attempt. Other reviews have called McIntosh a prodigy. For me, he seems lazy, unable to be bothered with details like plot or character development. The table of contents is almost a chapter unto itself with long quotations that come across as pretentious and self-indulgent. If you like a book that reads like the literary equivalent to an arty television commercial, McIntosh will have appeal. This is mostly package and very little substance. Next!