DELIVERANCE (James Dickey) - November 7/14

I enjoyed the beginning and ending sections of this book, but the middle...man oh man. It's just so descriptive and uninvolving that I was glazing wholesale over most of it. It certainly didn't surprise me to learn that Dickey is a poet, as the author goes out of his way to infuse sentences with a flowery feel. It's just dull and exhausting (and rarely tense or suspenseful). ** out of ****