A review by tallblackguy
The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

2.0

I found the main experiment abhorrent, the experience of the kid painful to read, and the catch-22 of "nature vs nurture" is exposed to have been guided for ulterior motive. I read the first two "books," and simply could not take any more. It started off VERY slowly, and boy, when it finally rains with plot, the bad things occur in floods.

It's not a bad book; the language is sophisticated and of the time period, and others have clearly enjoyed the central premise and what it does to the psyche of a young boy, but I remain unsettled.