A review by jdgcreates
History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason

1.0

What does it tell a reader when a saucy novel about a handsome and ambitious young "pleasure seeker" is the least enjoyable and compelling part of the story? And when the most interesting part is the ten-year old boy with severe (and misunderstood--it's the beginning of the 20th century, after all) OCD, but as of page 77 did not get more than a few pages of tribute? Sorry, but I just don't care about where Piet Barol is sticking his tongue or his finger or anything else for that matter when the characters are so banal and uninteresting. Not to mention the annoying way Mason plops a totally different character's perspective in for a random paragraph with no grace or fluidity whatsoever. I had grander expectations of this and was, obviously, disappointed.