I wobbled on this one...there were times where it dragged on a bit, and I wasn't always as tolerant of Karl's idiosyncracies. But then other times I just loved Karl and Paul and Charlie. So all in all, I enjoyed the book and loved the ending...it just took a bit to get there. Sometimes I found it hard to follow the sentences b/c even though I KNEW the book was solely written from Karl's POV, I sometimes started automatically thinking this part was from Paul's POV...not sure how that could be changed, but it was confusing. Maybe it was just me though.