Listen Book

This book held my interest long enough for me to finish it, but it lacked maturity. Some areas I could compare to my writers workshop projects from middle school...the mature developmental style of writing just wasnt there for me. 'He spoke like a favorite uncle talking of holiday traditions' and 'stirred the cream into endless darkness' were pointless and childish descriptions that need not be used. Four things that bothered me -Who hung the cat?! -Was it necessary to spend as much time as the author did discussing the lady who got hit in the head with the remote? Her injuries were not at all realistic -I understand that Marlo was a town of no violence but it seriously annoyed me that when they DID start having problems, they acted like the world was going to end. For example when the cat was hung, I find it unrealistic that such a large crowd would gather to look at the 'ghastly' sight. Also, Damien, the 'reporter', ever trying to do his best, suggests interviewing a ton of people and taking 'all different angles' at the cat being hung when in all reality the website (as Edgar pointed out) was truly the thing to focus on. -This book was published in 2010 and wasn't, as it was never pointed out to the readers, based on an earlier time period. This being said, there was a certain...disagreement between the age of electronics. Frank, one of the main characters, has an iPhone. But yet throughout the story, we see Damian's ineptness at a computer and the Internet continues to be referred to as the 'World Wide Web' which makes it sound like some new invention that not everyone knows the name of.