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shane_tiernan's review against another edition
3.0
So this is one of those books where you say, it wasn't at all what I expected but then you can't really remember what you expected. It was strange and the first chapter or so was really surreal and hard to follow but eventually it evened out.
I can't say the story's plot was all that exciting but it was a fairly enjoyable read. I liked the rap parts, they were hilarious and all the pop culture references. The swiming thing was kind of strange. I couldn't tell if it was there because the author was a swimmer or if he thought it would add depth to the character or as a tool to explain how the main character survives multiple action scenes involving water. (but did the action scenes come about because he was a swimmer or did the idea for the swimmer thing come about because of the action scenes - see what I mean?).
I really thought this one might be an extremely post-modern (in a bad way) read, but instead it was fairly straight forward (but very strange).
I can't say the story's plot was all that exciting but it was a fairly enjoyable read. I liked the rap parts, they were hilarious and all the pop culture references. The swiming thing was kind of strange. I couldn't tell if it was there because the author was a swimmer or if he thought it would add depth to the character or as a tool to explain how the main character survives multiple action scenes involving water. (but did the action scenes come about because he was a swimmer or did the idea for the swimmer thing come about because of the action scenes - see what I mean?).
I really thought this one might be an extremely post-modern (in a bad way) read, but instead it was fairly straight forward (but very strange).
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