Update: Well, I've finished The Keep by Jennifer Egan. Remember this was a book purported to be "eerie" with a Gothic twist. My review: Eh. It certainly grabbed me enough at first to keep turning the pages but I felt like the author tried too hard to "confuse" the reader into thinking that there was some deep-seeded meaning beneath all the darkness. In truth, I was actually looking forward to finishing this novel, not because I wanted badly to find out what happened at the end but because I wanted to read something else. I kept waiting for something to happen and when the last word was read and the last chapter ended, I turned the page thinking, "Is that is? Where was the ending? What the hell did I just read?" Prior to reading The Keep, I read rave reviews about it and I think now that I must have read a different book. Maybe I'm stupid and shallow and just not "deep" enough to grasp such a "literary masterpiece". Then again, maybe it just sucked. Regardless, don't buy it. If you must read it, you can have mine.
