I think it's fair to say that in spite of its frequently remarkable badness at all levels of execution –– from the maddening pretension of individual word choices and the needless circumlocutions that are unfortunately what I suspect most people think of as Rick Moody's prose style all the way up to the relentlessly unfunny jokes (despite the tendency of every other blurb quoted pre–title page to laud its satiric humor, this is not an especially funny novel) and the catastrophically failed experiments (I'm thinking in particular of the preposterously pseudo-academic riff on the "Ugly Girl ,") –– The Diviners is not a bad book.
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