The German Money Book

While I felt the characters weren't particularly likeable, they were rich in character, just bordering the bounds of believability. The tale itself was disjointed, pulling you in a number of directions, building up the anticipation of a radical finish, only to let you down with something fairly typical, not in the slightest out of the ordinary.

The saving grace of this somewhat mediocre novel is the occasional metaphor which is so striking to life that it carries you through, onto the next chapter, in hopes of finding another. Like a designer whose only signature piece leaves you searching through racks of hum drum hoping for another, so are these glimpses of poetic perception. They alone make it worth the read.