The Devil and Daniel Silverman

I have given this book about as lukewarm a three-star rating as I can, because I felt ambivalent about it the whole time I was reading it. The story concerns a gay, Jewish, rather apathetic, very self-involved, mediocre novelist who is paid an outrageous sum to speak at a Bible college in Minnesota. When he arrives, he finds himself in the midst of openly homophobic, anti-intellectual, misogynistic Bible thumpers, and before he can escape, he is trapped by a raging blizzard. The tone alternates between preachy and trying too hard to be funny, and there are really no sympathetic characters. But the writing is engaging, so the book ended up being a vague disappointment with a lot of potential.