Joni (Jonez)

I have been checking my watch this entire time. This is just such a SLOOOOOGGGGG. My God I can't wait for this to wrap up. This book has all the elements of a book I would like, but it just wasn't written in a manner that makes it work. 1. Poorley written chracters, written as cliche's (sometimes racist) or caricatures. 2. Films that seem almost dark and frightening enough to believe they could be underground obesessions, but unfortunaltley they all sound blander than something Lynch or even Zombie would come up with. Aside from the son really loosing his fingers, I don't see anything "underground" about these films at all. 3. Everyone they meet just pours out their soul and every ounce of infromation they could making the story easier to move forward. 4. Pacing is slow, arduous and clunky. It only moves forward with a plot reveal after meeting one of the many characters created to tell you everything and point you in the right or wrong direction. 5. An unlikable narrator can be great, but it just doesn't work. You are supposed to want to follow this character through the story. Something about the character needs to be likable in order for that to happen. Something about the character or the storyline needs to compell you to move forward. Brett Easton Ellis writes horrid characters that have something about you that pulls you in enough to want you to move forward. Love them, or love to hate them, you are there. But Scott is just a terrible person. He is a cliche, a bad father, and a racist who is trying to uncover something to clear his name at first. You don't care about him enough to WANT him to clear his name, and by the time he start questioning things and get super involved in the case to want to move forward to really know what is going on.....for me...I was just lost. I didn't care. I spent so much time hating Scott and being hit with character information dumps that I could care less how this ends. I just have it at almost 3X speed at this point and my only goal is for this to be OVER.