Painful, painful, painful! Maybe I'm just not high brow enough, or literate enough, but this book was painful, and not in a good way. It felt like it was trying so hard to be so deep but ended up just being so awful. When the best part of a book is the effect the electrocution of 14 year old boy has on his family and sorta kinda girlfriend, which mind you doesn't even happen until the last 40-50 pages? I almost masochistically want to see the movie now to see if it too is as dreadful as this book!