360 to Paradise by Casey MarxMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
I found this book to be a very depressing read. While it is full of expletives from start to finish, in order to add the touch of “reality” required in a novel about drug dealing, precocious language, salacious sexual behaviour and unrestrained violence, I found little within its narrative that was of literary value. The characters were not developed enough to inspire or produce any kind of empathy in the reader – unless, maybe, the reader was an emotionally challenged teenager. We are left at the end of the book with a sense of hopelessness for the future of contemporary youth and society. I felt that the book tends to sensationalise all the distasteful aspects of youth culture without attempting to put forward anything positive. It reminded me of Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” but without the humour or the literary excellence.
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