Holding Pattern is actually a collection of short stories, and I have to say the rating I'm giving is a bit harsh. I got through about 3 stories before I gave up on it. It just wasn't for me. While I understand the artistic literary form of blurring the plot and making things intentionally muddled, I can only appreciate it when it is done well. Which I don't think it was done here, I'm sorry to say. Naming the characters mostly the same name and then providing a disclaimer in the beginning of the text that they are all unrelated struck me as laziness rather than an innovative modern lit tactic. Perhaps it would have all tied together in some profound way in the end. I just wasn't attached enough to care to find out. Read at your own risk.
1/2 bookworm.
Friday, October 8, 2010
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