Well, the story line was intriguing and the characters were well developed, but it just didn't hold my interest like [b:The Black Dahlia|21704|The Black Dahlia|James Ellroy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg|434]. I think it was partly that the writing style was very different - very choppy and possibly intentionally so to mimic the way a 30s and 40s detective would speak (or at least the way they all speak in any 30s or 40s detective movie I have ever seen). It took a while for me to "get" what was going on - there were three main characters and the view point switched making the beginning of the novel hard to understand. However, I could not stop reading this book because I wanted to find out what happened to everyone, especially to Ed Exley, my favorite character.

So far, this novel is totally bizarre. However, I am really enjoying it because it is SO DIFFERENT from anything I have ever read.

I really enjoyed this novel - even if I didn't understand all of it. It was very well written, very intriguing, and very unusual.

This is the book club book for August. So, technically I haven't started reading it yet. Yes, I joined a book club.

Now I have finished this (a little too late for book club, although I did get through about half for the meeting).

This book is very good. It is sad and funny and hopeful and everything else one could want out of a novel. It gives an interesting view into the circus, the depression, and nursing homes.

This was a very good, very fast read. I didn't like it as much as "Girl with the Pearl Earring," but it still was very interesting.

Very interesting young adult novel tracing a family from an African taken and forced into slavery to a kid living in Harlem.

Maybe 3.5 stars. I found this to be very well written and very interesting. I kept waiting for something bigger to happen, for Silk's secret to be revealed, and was a little let down by the ending. But Roth makes up for this with his wonderful character development and his look into multiple lives.