Greener than you think

Entirely too Vonnegut for me. Depressing, political, moralizing, and full to the brim with characters that not only failed to inspire the least bit of empathy, but actively annoyed and/or repulsed – and this includes the narrator, a small-minded, self-congratulatory idiot I loathed within the first few pages. As if to add insult to injury, the author threw in weird conceits, like omitting apostrophes from contractions and hyphens from compound words, and including a character who constantly switched from one cliched caricature of an accent to another. As a short story it might have been tolerable – as a 320-page novel it was about 300 pages too long.