BEFORE THE FALL (Noah Hawley) - July 31/16

This is better than Hawley's last book but I still found this to be more frustrating than entertaining. The story is compelling and the structure of the novel is interesting, but Hawley's incredibly pompous writing style grates and the book is much, much too long. I get the feeling that Hawley is one of those people who thinks he's an amazing, generation-defining writer, as his prose comes off as someone who's showing off rather than someone interested in telling a consistently captivating story. The final stretch, in which it's revealed that the plane was crashed by a spurned pilot, is fairly engrossing, at least. **1/2 out of ****