dilan11 's review for:

Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow

3.0

funny reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I very much liked the first person narrative book. Other than YA or younger, you don't often find an engaging first person narrator in literacy fiction. However, I wasn't as moved as I expected to be. I didn't really feel for either brother. Also, I didn't really buy all of the incidents of the book - the hippies coming to squat with them or the gangster recovering on their kitchen table. I should have been moved, even perhaps horrified, by two brothers living in a cave of trash and shutting out the world and yet I wasn't.