Love and Other Games of Chance by Lee Siegel started out really good, but soon got tiresome.
We meet Issac Schlossberg, son of a famed sideshow performer. His life is that of an entertainer, magician, circus performer, conjurer; he is in love with an Angel. His travels take him across America, to India, England and beyond, in a giant game of snakes and ladders.
At first I found the story very funny and very interesting. But the sustained frenetic pace of Siegel's writing eventually wore on me and by the end I was very happy to be able to put the book down. Some readers might find this book clever and inventive, but I found reading this novel was quite exhausting.
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