A review by smcscot
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer

2.0

Predictable, trite, under-developed and painfully flat. The only saving grace to this novel was that Mr. Greer has flashes of brilliant word smithing. The reader will get through pages and pages of one dimensional characters (the only provocative character was Hughie, but you never really get to know him, and the narrator is a poor recollection of Humbert Humbert, who only comes off as a semi-sociopathic creep) to come upon a brief and brilliant description, only to lapse into more drivel. Avoid it, no matter what the today show says. If the premise interests you read "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Which the idea (idea, not plot) for the story was stolen.