BRIGHTON ROCK (Graham Greene) - February 6/12

This incredibly disappointing and downright boring novel contains an admittedly interesting story, but Greene bogs it down time and time again with overly descriptive passages and an emphasis on subplots and subcharacters that couldn't possibly be less interesting. I found myself glazing over whole paragraphs and it was just a real struggle getting through the last 100 pages. It doesn't help, either, that the protagonist is a fairly underdeveloped and reprehensible figure. I'm not writing Greene off yet, but yeah, this was shockingly bad. * out of ****