"...it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer."
Well, thanks to you Time, Newsweek, Modern Library, and London Observer, you all win the solid gold prize for shilling overrated paper! I don't care what you guys are going to say, this is thoroughly uninteresting and dull. I'd rather sit through a World War II textbook instead of this!