It is a truism that “the bigger the hype, the bigger the letdown,” and given the frenzy over this book I was prepared to hate it. In spite of my expectations, I loved it. On page one, the narrator drives over a cliff as he suffers a drug-induced hallucination in which he sees a barrage of flaming arrows converging on him from a wood on the right. He veers left, plummets over the edge into a ravine and is severely burned in the ensuing crash.  You don’t know it then, b...   read more