Brian’s Reviews > The Bradbury Report: A Novel > Status Update

A chapter at a go is about all I can stand. What isn't helping is the author's penchant for jumping ahead a year, which dispels any hope for suspense, say, about the border crossing, and we now know this putz is still dawdling on his journal a year after the border. Clearly they arent apprehended for at least the next year in the narrative. We will ignore the absurdity of this "land of the clones" thing.

this "journal" format doesn't make any sense. We're in the past, yet "I see you tomorrow, what follows is my notes while I was with the clone..." how does this note appear in the journal?

SO DAMN DULL. DULL. DULL. DULL. nothing kills a novel for me more that dumb narrators, dumb concepts (see my review of the sparrow, say) or self absorbed narrators, no matter how candid.

Guessing at the page number. Again, so much contrivance for this story, and so much back story and infill and digression about his life and his wife and blah blah blah. I get it, but could something, like, HAPPEN?

Too implausible.

dull. Too introspective. Too discursive.