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Clossom Art clossomartstudio — Apparently, Galloway has an MFA. I know this from this book jacket blurb, but the clues are also in his style of writing. As Simple As Snow, a bleak little adolescent love-story-turned-mystery, reads like a clumsy creative writing dissertation. Most of the first dozen chapters are simply vignettes describing the novel’s major characters. They’re not integrated into the story in any way – they’re just there, as if copied&pasted from a homework assignment to write 1,000 words about a single character. As I was reading, I also grew to dread any change of setting, because the story would inevitably grind to a halt as Galloway devoted a page to describing the scenery. Maybe if the story were more compelling, this stylistic clumsiness would bother me less. Alas, I couldn’t bring myself to care about the unpopular narrator, his unhappy home life or his eccentric new girlfriend. Admittedly, there are some nice touches to the story, such as Anna’s penchant for sending the narrator odd little gifts and letters through the mail. As a noir-ish teen drama, it also reminded me of the movie, Brick. Unfortunately, the blending of genres worked better when writ large on screen. Here, the characters just seem pretentious and annoying. Outcasts are usually easy to root for – they’re the underdog and you want to see them succeed – but Galloway’s narrator seems ill-liked for good reason. He’s dull and unremarkable, with a hint of mean-spiritedness. There’s one chapter where he describes his mother in terms of unbridled scorn: she’s too inept to hold a job (never mind that she used her career-building years to raise three kids); she’s a mediocre cook (never mind that she still makes him two meals a day, every day). It’s deeply unpleasant. Though branded as a mystery, I found I didn’t even care enough to find out what happened in the end.

Julian Art _azar_rts — Like many people growing up in the US, I read THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN as an obligatory assignment at school. No one likes obligatory reading, and it was like water off a duck's back. Regretting that I remembered nothing of the novel, I recently re-read it, and I found it entertaining reading, and also much more for a grown-up audience than I expected. Of course the book was only started as a sequel to Twain's novel for boys THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER before being turned towards much more serious themes, such as child abuse and the conflicts in antebellum southern society. But even much of the novel's humour is intended for older readers, requiring some knowledge of European history and of Shakespeare. The book's status as one of the Great American Novels is curious when it paints so bleak a picture of America. Any signs of refined culture among these inhabitants of the Mississippi comes not even for the East Coast but from Europe. For all of Twain's love of the land--indeed, the Mississippi River is itself a character--he was clearly a cosmopolitan figure by this point. Or perhaps the praise of America is subtle, as it is a portrait of a land free of aristocracy (the characters who call themselves the "king" and "duke" are scoundrels), and the novel is written in the honest vernacular of country people. The novel cannot in any way be considered a perfect work of literature when it is an arc that soars towards quality only in the middle. The opening pages are still in the realm of children's literature, while the final section reads as a tiresome parody with far too much serendipity to be believable. For that reason I've rated it four stars.