I read this book a few years ago and the it still stays with me. Not in the way a work of art does, but more like a piece of bad roast you had at that hillbilly bar. It was supposed to be dead but you thought to yourself "O MY GOD, it's still moving!" Anyway, I couldn't care less for the characters and the plot (all 100 of them) was horrible. To make a long story short, it ended up in the recycle bin.