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Now before you jump on me screaming and bitching about how I could possibly give this book a C, hear me out. In my own opinion, I just didn't like the book too much. It didn't grab me or hook me at the beginning, and it wasn't really until the last quarter of the book that my attention was really held.

I can't figure out why else I didn't really like it. Roth is a very skilled writer, the book reading like a historical memoir of hard times, the tone of a distant adult voice recounting his younger years. His incorporation of real historical figures was flawless and didn't seemed stretched at any time. They blended seemlessly with the fictional ones, and never appeared out of character. At least they didn't for me, maybe those of you who are HUGE history buffs about certain figures would be able to tell more.

The thing that was disturbing about the novel was how real it was. Not in the way it was written, but when you read the postscript at the end about these historical figures and their own personal timelines, you can see how likely the book could have been reality if things had only been slightly different.

If you're planning on reading the book and find yourself losing your focus on it in the beginning, finding it getting dry, I advise you to hold on. For me it finally picked up by chapter 7 and just kept going from there. And there are bits in the beginning that are a little more exciting and I found those enough to keep reading.

In the end I think this is a book that will always garner different reactions and opinions. It's not about the way it's written, the characters or the storyline, it's just going to be if you liked it or you didn't. For me, it was good, but I just didn't think it was that good.