This is the second book of the weekend that I was unable to finish reading. Coincidence, or is it me? Here's a sample sentence from Darkmans:"It went without saying that the Chunnel (now a source of such unalloyed national complacency and pride) had caused huge headaches - and terrible heartache - in East Kent, but Beede's greatest betrayal had been on a much smaller, more informal, more abstract level."
The use of parentheses is rampant (in nearly every other sentence) and quite distracting (as you might imagine, especially in a novel). Well, there we go - it is just coincidence. Even putting the parentheses aside, this book is unreadable.
