“Bland Memoir”
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While the premise sounded intriguing the end result is so insanely boring. It’s overall just a bland memoir of the dad explaining his boring daily routine with his kids with excruciating detail on the most uninteresting points. There are constant detailed descriptions of picnics on the beach, the food he brings, the dinners he makes, and the food he regurgitates (much like the author regurgitating words) – why so much meal imagery?! The beginning pages outline that he’s going to kill his family – but the drag to the end to find out whether he actually does or not is a slog. The last 5 minutes of the book very dark, sad, and feels scarily realistic but the rest is so dull that it doesn’t even redeem anything. Throughout there are also lots of flippant violence towards his wife, both mental and physical, with no comeuppance, justice or even real acknowledgement. Reads like a boring diary!
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