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DNF at the halfway mark. Read five of the ten stories. Moore's pervasive lack of concern for whether the reader actually knows what's going on quickly became tiresome. Connections between paragrpahs are frequently tenuous. Even to the extent I followed, I found myself struggling to either relate to or care about the characters. Lots of sex and drug use, very little insight into internal motivations. References to specific places in St. John's are ploddingly tacked-on, and serve as a poor substitute for actual setting development. Some readers seem to have gotten something out of this, and perhaps they saw something I did not. But I doubt there shall be another foray into Moore's writings for me; we are too mismatched.

2/5, at best

NTS: The next time you're wondering if you should take that extra book on the road, take the extra book. Would not have read this had I had Dostoevsky with me, as I had originally planned.