I'm just not feeling this series. I've trucked through these four (short) books because they resided on my shelves, but at this point I'm happy to give them away. I may not even read the final and 5th installment in the series because I don't own it and I certainly don't want to pay for it.

And so we forage on with the story of Patrick Melrose, a terrible person I hate reading about. Mother's Milk is interesting in its writing, but ultimately it's simply a novel (and series) that portrays life as horrible and everybody in it is bad, children suck, marriage is awful, and you're stuck with parents. It's not even depressing at this point, it's just tired-feeling.

Ah well.