A review by smartipants8
Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin

3.0

At first I was extremely annoyed by the narrator. he was trying too hard to be outrageous and a "character". Where was the narrative voice of the lovely and stately "Soldier of a Great War" that I read in 1998? But it was the last book I had with me on my trip to Kerala and i couldn't find anything other than God of Small THings in the Kerala bookstore that wasn't a risk. So I stuck with it and it grew on me. It was a good book to read on vacation - so many different things happened in it that you could read a block, put it down and move on, then come back and read another block. By the end I really enjoyed it and the narrator. But I'm giving it three stars because it annoyed the crap out of me at the beginning and I like to drink coffee.