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I'm not sure when, exactly, I realized Amos was having a mental breakdown. I remember thinking "he wasn't likeable in The Thing if It Is... but he wasn't completely detestable either." And then I thought I was going crazy, or that this book was starting to jump the shark. And then I realized what was happening. Goldman, through the use of run-on sentences and his seamless transitions between Amos' "fantasies", which get more and more morbid ("Do you know what morbid means? Nice foreshadowing!) a...
This book is very funny and very sad, and although it is at times disjointed and goes off the rails toward the end, it is well worth reading. The main character, Amos McCracken, is one of the most desperate losers I've come across in literature - so pitiful and unfortunate you almost want to feel sorry for him, if he wasn't also self-serving. His relationship with his daughter, which forms the spine of the book, is wholly believable, and their journey, which takes all of a day, is at times heart...
