" If I was rating the book based on the second half, it would have gotten a 4, if on the first half, a 2, so it evened out to a 3. Personally I kept thinking "yeah, this is sort of funny, but it was funnier when Thomas McGuane wrote it way back in the 70s the first time." Somehow the book blossoms eventually, and it turned out to be worth wading through some material that should have been shortened a bit. "
— Lisa, 2/20/2014