Let me clear a few things up... so this novel was supposed to be a couple of things, which is "funny" and a great "summer" fiction (light?) read.. that is why I picked it up. Well I don't regret it, but I can't recall a time it was a laugh out loud kind of book and I felt it was laborious more than a few times. I even felt like abandoning the damn thing. It also is supposed to be about a family...more specifically 5 siblings, but I really only recall four, and the story mostly revolved around one Tanner, which is Simon.

Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for this, but it is appealing and a stimulating read. Simon pretty much wanders from job to job , city to country, house to backally room, and really it seems like he is never satisfied. The guy has something to say about everything.. like he literally goes off at every guy who hired him to the point that he doesn't have job reference or experience for anything - and doesn't want it for a matter of fact, but he somehow manages to talk his was into a new job and into a free place to live, etc. (He tends to say everything about anything that a lot of us have wanted to say those in the higher ups or about those around us..oddly). He is really onto something here... nothing too eventful happens, but it is as he is moving through life nonchalantly and through his interactions with others and insight into the way people move and work..he concludes that a profession doesn't merely make a man, cause either way we'd be the same as we age no matter what we end up doing. He appreciates the small things that he senses day to day, concludes that real freedom is from being what they say is poor, and having the disadvantage is not an ultimate tragedy...

I also read that this was the last novel he wrote before he landed in a madhouse... hrm.