I started this short book with high hopes as I'd read some glowing reviews of it. The first few pages were well-written and promised an eerie story that would creep up on the reader. However, by the time I got a third of the way through the book I became increasingly aggravated with the obliqueness, lack of affect of the protagonist, and minimal plot. Halfway through I just wanted to skip to the end and find out if ANYTHING happened. Basically, Ordinary Horror would have made a pretty good short story but is an extraordinarily dull novel.