5.0

Took me a while to make up my mind about this; it's an auction catalog listing the belongings of two people in a failed relationship. It's their relationship's mementos, and it's weird. It's voyeuristic and also allows you to assume whatever you like about this (fictional) couple. These days, it's just as easy to do this with Facebook.

At the same time, perhaps it's a sort of psychological test to your own thoughts on relationships and on the manuevers of this one in particular. When I was recommended this book, it was because somebody had told him it was "hilarious." While I was reading it, I couldn't help but feel incredibly sad and depressed! Did one person read the deterioration of a relationship as funny, and me as sad because that's how we view romance or relationships or the world?

In the end, I give it five stars because it had a weird, personal reaction in me. And I can't stop thinking about it!