2008-08-12 Needlessly long with non directional plot

This review will probably go against the grain but I bought this book on the premise that it was an award winning, must read and had not heard a bad thing said about the book. Being a bit of a book worm it didn't take as long to read as I initially thought it would, but I did find the story was more long winded than required. There was no discernable plot as the story just meandered through various sub plots that never quite ended satisfactorily. The abrupt ending did an injustice to the marathon reading effort it takes to work your way through it. Nevertheless, the amusing characters and rich use of language were enjoyable though overall I feel this was a pointless story with no plot development which I can't bring myself to recommend to anyone else.