PositivePopMatters...Surreal and lovely scenes abound ... It’s with reluctance, therefore, that I must report there is hardly a plot throughout the nearly 500 pages of this novel. Crain seems aware of this fact. He has his protagonist recall a novel in which nothing happens for many pages, and yet the reader is still transfixed. I was not always transfixed while making my way through Necessary Errors. The length and the meandering quality of the story seemed self-indulgent ... Still… I’ll be very honest here. As much as this book can be maddening, it seems to be staying with me—in a good way ... Crain did help me to appreciate moments in my own young life—and he made me wish that I could slow down and become more observant. I’m grateful that he wrote this novel, and it’s likely that I will pick up the next book that he cranks out.
