I probably owe this one another read to see if it strikes me more as a four-star book. It initially did. The setting is vivid and the characters are quirky and believable. Rounding the bend on the last quarter or so of the book I was fully expecting it to get those four stars. But the way the loose ends came together was a little ponderous. I admit that I started and stopped the book a couple of times and finished it on airplanes and at the beach, so it may be the kind of book that reveals itself with a closer, more thoughtful read. It might be hard to find a book by someone who hates San Francisco more. There are some brief moments of humor. But it's mostly just loathing with no real insight. Worse, having finished it, I can't really say what this book is about, or even what happened in the last 50 pages.Also, if I read correctly, one of the characters talks about moving out to SF in 1967, "two years before the summer of love." SOL was 1967. With this book, it's hard to tell if the author really doesn't know, or the character was clueless.
What do You think about Dead Do Not Improve (2013)?
This is actually pretty good. I think it's just the white people who didn't like it.
—v1xengr
Thought this was pretty good. Snappy prose, the occasional Tolstoy-ism.
—citadell
I don't think I got it. I enjoyed it anyway.
—SusanB
