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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53169.The_Children_s_Hospital?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Children's Hospital" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170400458m/53169.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53169.The_Children_s_Hospital?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Children's Hospital</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12177.Chris_Adrian">Chris Adrian</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15213620?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I don't even know what to say in this review. <br/> <br/>The premise of this book alone is one of the singlemost interesting premises to emerge from American fiction in recent years. However, I don't think the premise alone is enough to maintain the momentum for six hundred plus pages. To support this claim, I will tell you that I tore through the first four hundred pages or so in a day or two; it took me almost two weeks to get through the last two hundred fifteen. It just wasn't engaging to me anymore. There's a nice shocking twist at about this point and from there the book devolves into tedium (several consecutive chapters devoted to the death of a different character, and since they all die the same way, it becomes the very definition of tedium) and outright silliness (bionic legs for one character! roller derbys!). And then the ending, which I just don't get. I'm sure there's some allegory to be deciphered here, but I'm so tired of this book at this point that I just don't have the energy to decipher it. I'd rather move on to a different book. <br/> <br/>I'm sure it sounds like I hated this book. And I didn't. Chris Adrian is a fantastic writer and every step of this journey is nicely described (though it seems that he begins to gloss over things more and more as the book winds to a close). My experience with this book doesn't stop me from wanting to read more of his work. And I've already mentioned that I tore through the first three fourths of the novel. There's a ton of good thought-provoking ideas in this story, but in the end, I don't really think I care very much. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/323130?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>