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Aug 05, 2018
Richard Ford should be ashamed of using the name of our wonderful country to write a book about a confused teenager. The contemplations , one after the next into tangents of tedium are boring and frustrating. This was terrible writing; such repetative redundancies, poor subject matter, descriptions of Saskatchewan so repelling, disgusting personalities the teen, Dell, has these tedious internal dialogues about and the reader is teased into thinking there's some kind of halfway interesting climax coming but no, not and the plot is so broken up with teenage quandry and what he thought and what they ate and what the table looked like instead of getting to the POINT. Frustrating. If you read the first 2 and the last 2 chapters of the first part you may find the Second Part slightly interesting if you are a teenager yourself. The Third Part where I hoped to find some kind of meaningful result or tale of what happened to Dell after he left on the bus but no, just a bunch of musing by the grown Dell about what he teaches his students, groan, what? and then some sad little tale about his sister, dead mother, 90 year old dad he never saw again, WHAT A WASTE OF MY TIME!