"World's Fair"

World's Fair: A Novel (E.L. Doctrow)

After throwing City of God spitefully into the donation pile, I realized I have another Doctrow novel on one of my to-read shelves. And it's..... okay? Unlike City of God, this time we only have two narrators, and you can actually, you know, tell what's happening. Except that what's happening isn't really that interesting. A kid is born, and he grows up (the book ends when he's just about in the fifth grade). And.... that's it. It's not really that gripping or interesting, unless you really NEED to read, for example, three pages about the protagonist buying and eating a baked potato. I liked the parts written by the main character's mother, which are written in second person, but they're just trimming on the main, bland course. Maybe I'm missing something; People apparently love this novel, while I basically dozed off reading it. Shucks.

Grade: D+