From time to time I decide that I should read or re-read a classic or modern classic. This is considered by many to be a modern day classic, and I decided I should read, for reasons I no longer remember. After slogging through it, I'm afraid I consider it a LOT of wasted time. The story follows Jesse Vogel (also Harte, then Pederson) as he experiences, as a young boy, traumatic family tragedy, is adopted into a very strange family, then works his way through medical school.
This recounting is choppy, often skipping several years, and has very little analysis of any kind, certainly not self-analysis by Jesse himself. He is a cipher; a mystery to the end. All in all, not a book I would recommend.
527 pages
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