A paranoid man Global warming Minor Flood = one incredibly, painfully boring book. It is books like this, that get a ton of press and praise, that turn people off from reading. ( )

Meh. ( )

The things I liked about this book, I really liked. Loved even. Kornegay is a fabulous writer. His word choices are spot on. The main character's decent into paranoia is fascinating and the setting the author creates is haunting and real. I got bogged down in the middle but plowed on intrigued enough to wonder about the ending. By the end of the story, I despised every single character and felt there was no resolution. I prefer a little grit in a tale, and I don't like a nice, neat ending, but by the end of this book I mostly felt annoyed. Of course, maybe that was the author's intention. ( )

A paranoid man + Global warming +Minor Flood = one incredibly, painfully boring book. It is books like this, that get a ton of press and praise, that turn people off from reading. ( )

A debut novel in the best tradition of the literary Southern Gothic, this dark tragicomedy held me in a dreadful grip right to the end. ( )