This book begins wonderfully, and somewhere around the middle gets totally off track. He just gets bogged down in things that aren't all that interesting. I understand that he's coping with the loss of his brother, but it seems he did it in a really long, weird, and unhealthy way. I had to really buckle down to finish this one, and just wanted to tear my hair out over the last 35 pages. If this had be about 50 pages shorter it could have been sooooo much better.P.S. I think his brother was probably mentally disturbed.