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Just... Couldn't... Finish... ugh...

Revisado: 04-28-11

I've been enjoying reading Pulitzer winning fiction for years. As I've begun to listen to more books I recently tried and loved A Visit From the Goon Squad (prior to its Pulitzer win) and gave five stars to Empire Falls which was a 20 hour book.
For a break I figured I'd give Tinkers a try as a shorter listen. What a disappointment. Unlike powerful (relatively) shorter books like Toni Morrison's Beloved, Tinkers grated on my nerves from the very beginning.
Professional reviews touted the detail of such tasks as watch repair which I found to be eloquent (for a watch repair manual) but incredibly boring in a novel. Proulx's The Shipping News contains a scene which describes the construction of a boat in detail as an integral part of the story after we're invested in the characters. In Tinkers however, the detailed clock repair scene made me want to drive into a tree. Any time the story even hinted at the prospect of another journey down the clock repair path I could only grit my teeth.
The trek in Tinkers felt contrived to me unlike Cold Mountain which was a sequence of adventures within a larger plot. I had no interest in the main characters nor the sub-characters who often felt forced into the story to me.
In the end I just couldn't finish the book and clicked it off with little reservation. As a concession for my bailing out I gave it a second star. Maybe it improved but I just couldn't give it that chance. Life is just too short.

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