Thomas Smith

If you want a book about needless dialogue seemingly designed to confuse and make you go back and count the lines from the last time a name was mentioned, this is the one for you. I read it on kindle but sincerely wish it was paperback so I could tear up this utter waste of time prior to trudging my way through moments of "oooh, it might be going somewhere" to the sheer brilliance of 3 lines out of 10,000 where I thought "he really does have something!" Which I later regretted, of course, because there was nothing there in the end. Having faith in the author is sometimes what you need to get through. In the case of Tree of Smoke, it was very misguided.