Tannat

This book just seems long and boring. I'm debating between dropping it entirely and just starting to skim to see what happens.

I find zero of the characters sympathetic. None of them are even interesting. Even Pierre is just a socially maladjusted man who has warped ideas on psychiatry and thinks it's normal to shake his teenage daughter to the point that she has to threaten to hit him over the head with her drinking glass if he touches her again.

So far all I'm getting from the story is that far too many people have empty lives that can only be filled with sensation because they lack the introspection and will-power to make anything of their lives and are incapable of picking up a book. Pretty plate and pathetic, in other words.