The Little Giant of Aberdeen County - Tiffany Baker

★★★★★★★★★★ (0/10) for not being able to finish

I feel sad.  This is quite possibly the first time I've even given up on a book.  Usually, I will read to the end just to be done with a book, no matter how much I don't like it.  With this novel, though, I've been stuck on page 37 for over 3 weeks. I can't go on like this, so I am officially quitting on this book.  It will retire peacefully to a dusty corner of my bookshelf, and live the rest of its life wondering why it has no friends.

My biggest reasons for being unable to continue reading The Little Giant of Aberdeen County are that it's extraordinarily slow, and that it skips around so much that it's too much effort to keep track of who's who and what year it is.  I thought the slowest book I'd ever read was Tolkien's The Hobbit, due to the immensely long descriptions (especially that stupid tunnel), but this takes the cake.  The plot just doesn't go anywhere! Also, it feels like Baker needs too much setup to get to the beginning of whatever the "plot" may be.  This novel is only 341 pages long, so if there's a point that needs to be made, or characters that need to be introduced, it needs to be done a little bit quicker than the rate she's going.

I don't feel that there's anything else I can say.  I didn't read enough of it.  Thank goodness for Borders closing; I don't feel so bad spending money of this novel since it was 75% off.