Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Are the good reviews lying? Because this was a hot mess of deconstruction that didn't work...if that was the author's creative intention. There was not one character...if you could follow the twenty or so introduced in pockets of the book that had little purpose...that was redeeming or that I could care about to want to continue on this literary journey. But, with so many literary accolade from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, I felt obligated to finish the book. I even preordered wanting to see what all the praise was about. Were they lying too? Yes, yes they were. This book should never have seen the light of say. It was confusing and pointless. I understand what Patchett was trying to accomplish in artistic terms, but in literary terms, it just didn't work.