Hari Gopal

I was starting to think that picking up this book was a good idea.

But then the author decides to have the protagonist cheat in a game, a game he was sure to win anyway, when a character he knows is crazy supplies the opportunity.

And then he gets blackmailed for it, thus forming the reason for the story to get started. Pathetic. Lead character being an idiot and a cheater makes it impossible for me to consider continuing reading this one.

I hate to think of the amount of time I spent on this, well, worthless book. My problem with it lies in how I kept hoping the story would start making some sort of sense - and it doesn't. I got to see a guy named Shadow take a ridiculous trip across America meeting some weird people and getting into some weird situations. At the end of it, I can't see what the point of it all was. Maybe its because I'm not American? I'm not so sure. There's something fundamentally wrong about this book. I can't say what it is though.