I'm wondering if I'd like Frank more if I had read the other books; I think not. I'm also wondering if The Sportswriter was a better book than this one since it won a Pulitzer, or if it's just a mediocre, white man thing. Some things in the book made me laugh but if you ask me what they were now, I wouldn't be able to tell you.

This book brought me back to the age-old question of: if I hate the main character, can I still appreciate the book? It didn't work here because even though it's good writing, the whole book centers on the thoughts of a boring, racist, misogynistic, and transphobic character. He calls black people Negroes and when there's a gender-ambiguous/transgender character, Frank refers to them as him/her, which made me physically cringe.

Overall, Frank is cynical and cruel, but somehow still boring and I was paying very little attention by the end of the book. No thanks