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"I found out about this book from a friend who came across it on an author's website. It's written in a very personal manner like you're having a conversation with the narrator, and it concerns three friends named David, who are separated at the beginning of the book by a train crash in Nebraska. As the book goes on, we find one of the Davids in the city living with his grandmother and working for a corporate communications company where he has terrible headaches while also falling in love with an artist named Lilah, and another in his old college town in the country meeting up with three old friends in a rock band, moving in with them and slowly becoming depressed. The third (that's how he's described: "the third") is the one who was injured in the train crash and gets left behind in the Midwest. His sections are much more abstract, for the most part -- he's trying to get out of the Midwest -- but what's conveyed about him seems to be more of his innerworkings, his thoughts and feelings, sometimes dreams, rather than his interpersonal interactions. Probably 'cause he doesn't have any, really. The book is basically a build-up to the third's reunion with the other two, 'cause during his time after the train wreck in the hospital, he has had psychic visions through his dreams he wants to share with the other two. He seems to be wanting to be their guide. "
Joan, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- GENERAL--no other subplots apply
Other aspects:
- best friends
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- vague finding self/purpose in life (i.e. no plot to book)
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Ethnic/regional/gender life
Yes
Brain/Body disability?
- mental illness
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Main Adversary
Identity:
- society
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- artist
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Dumb
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 (a fair amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- wealthy
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- lesbians!
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
- No single main character?
- written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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