A review by cseibs
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon

1.0

A huge disappointment. There was so much wrong with this book and almost nothing right. None of the convoluted storylines felt authentic in any way, and the minor problems of the characters were outsized to the point of absurdity (Gwen calls a doctor a name and we're supposed to think it is the end of the world?) I could not stand the way that all the characters seemed to speak in the same voice and have the same hyper-literate, 1970s kungfu and soul frame of reference. It became difficult to differentiate one character from another when Chabon gave them all the same script, even the kids. I really struggled to finish this book because I hated all the characters and couldn't get into the story at all. I love Chabon, but this was a big, big fail for me.