JOSHUAJENKINSis unremarkable

It took me an entire week to wade through the explosion of words that are The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Six hundred plus pages of run on sentences and epic detail. It is actually kind of sad that, after finishing this novel, what sticks in my mind is how verbose this book was.

The extreme wordiness, while it could have been contained, could be considered a necessary evil for this work. The characters in TAAK&C (sweet acronym) are so well written that I could make some cliche reference to them jumping off the page or coming to life.

If you're in to fiction firmly grounded in near-reality you should give this one a shot. It's all about two cousins, one jewish, during the second world war and their struggle with just about everything that can be thrown at them. Also involves New York City, comic books, Prague (Czech it out), magicians, and pubes occasionally.

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