I was a big Pat Conroy fan. I absolutely loved "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini." I was so looking forward to reading "Beach Music" that I almost put down the book I was reading to start this one up immediately.What a total, complete and dismal disappointment.Okay, I'll admit it -- I didn't finish the book. But after 300 pages of rambling with virtually nothing revealed (why the heck DID that one guy flee the country and become a priest? -- If I had to read another allusion to that I was going to throw the book in the fire! Get on with it already and let the reader know what's going on!) I just couldn't face another 500 pages.I found each character more annoying than the last. Why is it, for example, that every woman in this book is such a mythical creature? -- They're all beautiful, headstrong, articulate, slim, sexy -- who are these people?I could go on and on, but this book doesn't deserve such attention. Suffice to say that I hated it.