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Mar 26, 2017
I can't say I enjoyed this book but I flew through it and recognized parts. It was a very depressing book. The way Clay goes through the motions, bored, disgusted, sometimes fascinated by events/people around him but always viewing them from a numb distance, feels very real and sad. The flashbacks to his childhood were pretty minimal. I don't know if they left much of an impression on other readers but I guess they were meant to show why he turned out the way he did. I don't know if that was totally successful, but it added another dimension to the book for me, however minor. One character in particular from his past begins to stand out and seems to represent something for Clay, as if her absence later becomes the absence of all real feeling for him and all sense of family. Oh god, there's a sequel?! What. NO.