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for Flat Water Tuesday
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Malinda N. (Wheeling, WV)
Flat Water Tuesday Falls a Little Flat
I fully anticipated enjoying this book. I tend to enjoy coming of age novels and, having attended a prep school, enjoy reading novels with a similar setting. For the most part, I did enjoy the story. I liked the characters as they all seemed complex and damaged and I was fully expecting an ending that would tie them all together and answer some of the questions that were posed throughout the novel. Unfortunately the ending did not meet my expectations. I felt that the author created a complicated story and then left the reader hanging. It just didn't come together which is unfortunate because the story had a lot of potential. Also the crew information dragged at times although it was somewhat integral to the story. If one knows nothing about the sport the story probably won't interest them.
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Elizabeth L. (Beavercreek, OH)
A decent story but...
It took quite a while for me to get interested in the story even though the book's premise hooked me right away. Part of it was because the author was trying far too hard in the beginning. His writing style kept getting in the way of the story. The story line kept getting lost in a forest of metaphors. I was very annoyed by this particularly when the metaphor filled paragraphs were about things that were totally irrelevant to the story like the plane trip back from South Africa. Meandering descriptive paragraphs about a plane ride are just filler to make the book longer. The other problem was that even though the Fenton years were by far the more interesting story, the author's "voice" as a teenager never seemed genuine to me. There was too much extrapolation of adult conceits onto his teenage characters.
