A Son of the Circus

DNF at page 122.

I will start off by saying that I love Irving's style of writing. This is my first novel I've read by him and from what I can tell, he certainly knows how to construct a narrative. That being said, the story itself appears rather scatterbrained. I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be a murder mystery, a drama, or simply the internal monologue or some Indian (but not really Indian?) Doctor. The characters are fairly interesting, but I'm not even to page 200 and there's aleady a massive cast of names that need to be kept track of. That fact combined with the slow storyline and reading some other reviews saying this only gets worse as it goes on, I simply could not keep my attention any longer, and I decided to set it down.