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When it isn't a brutal portrait of the ultimate dysfunctional family, it's a love note to South Carolina's low country. The flawed characters all have depth, and the relevance of place to his family's story is strong as tensile wire. Brilliant read, though very difficult at times; you feel guilty for eavesdropping on this family's awful secrets.
I learned that I'll never trust the government again. Well, admittedly I knew it was corrupt and duplicitous before but Krakauer came up with definitive proof of same. You wouldn't think those we've elected would stoop so low as to use another human being's death to further an agenda, but the government apparently saw Pat Tillman as such a martyr. Typical Krakauer — a fascinating subject, both the person and his circumstances, are relentlessly researched and reported though overwritten at times, but very compelling.
He might have been describing the town where I grew up, save for the abject isolation. One of the things I think about when driving through the barren wastes and podunk backwaters of our great land is how anyone out in the middle of nowhere finds fulfillment or reaches their potential. Klosterman attempts to answer this question with a three-way character study in this novel.
The ending is the only thing keeping it from five stars, but I knew it wouldn't end with happily ever after. Still, the character development is incredible, with deep back stories for all the principles and some of the minor characters. Klosterman knows how to tell a story, and having read his non-fiction work he probably knew some of these people back in the day. An outstanding debut novel.
The ending is the only thing keeping it from five stars, but I knew it wouldn't end with happily ever after. Still, the character development is incredible, with deep back stories for all the principles and some of the minor characters. Klosterman knows how to tell a story, and having read his non-fiction work he probably knew some of these people back in the day. An outstanding debut novel.
Brilliant analysis of world affairs vis a vis the world's game. There are some excellent parallels between major world events and soccer, which I found very enlightening.