beautifully written, terribly boring...
I loved The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and I also liked The Final Solution, which was a mystery novella by Chabon, so I was excited to read this. Of course, it's amazingly written. I give the prose five stars. But that's not enough to save it. To put it simply, the story is just terribly boring. It never gets interesting. Around page 300, I said to myself, "Okay, it's gotta start picking up soon." But it just didn't. It's not that I don't appreciate great prose. I do. But I don't see much point in reading beautiful words that tell a boring story when I could be reading beautiful words that tell an interesting story, like his other works or works by other authors. I'm not giving up on Chabon though. I'll probably read the next book he writes. I just hope it's more interesting than The Yiddish Policemen's Union.