When it hit, it hit fantastically. Well, maybe fantastic is the wrong word because it's an incredibly sobering and depressing read. But when it was in its element, outstanding. I don't want to say the rest of it was bad or pretentious but it was kind of slow going and not...great. A hard book to rate because for me the not great definitely outweighed the moments of raw emotion but...yeah, I think 3/5 works.