The Deuce: Finally finished the book. Sorry to say this book is a pile of shit.

Pacing is all over the place, there's zero character development, and the whole story is little more than a loose assemblage of lazy plot devices.

I hope the movie is better.

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read the book first, because people said the book was great and gives good context that the movie doesn't have.

I'm about 20% of the way through and so far this book sucks. It's not billed as a YA novel, but it's absolutely written like one. Is it just a deliberate choice in the beginning because the story starts from the point of view of a guy with some kind of brain damage?

Any of you book people know whether this gets better?