I have tried to stick with this story.........we have a paperback copy that we ran across in the process of going through some old boxes and I picked it up and started to read..........it may be that something in the narrative will produce, at some point, a compelling, engaging and involving story but I am one third through this and can't turn another page. My biggest problem with "The Accidental Tourist" (and it is a BIG problem) is that the narrative is boring...there is no ART in the way words and sentences are constructed and that, combined with a story line that is thin, have, for me, produced a non-page-turner. I think it is unfortunate that this work received some good reviews...what has happened to our standards.