A review by ir85
The 37th Mandala by Marc Laidlaw

Liked the premise and found some of the scenes very well executed (the entire sequence in Cambodia at the very beginning has an excellent eerie, surreal quality; several different encounters with mandalas (the toilet comes to mind especially) were also quite disturbing and memorable). But reading this novel very quickly became a chore due to the characters - I found them detrimental to my enjoyment of the plot: they felt very flat and not at all compelling or interesting to follow. At about the 60% mark I began skimming but even so the plot seemed to drag endlessly.