I Don't Know...

I DO know that E.L. Konigsburg is a very well-respected and acclaimed author.  I do not know why The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World is just so...I don't know...disagreeable.  I've tried reading From the Mixed Up Files... and A View from Saturday but I couldn't get very far in either of them, but I know people love them.  I don't know any kids who love them, but a lot of adults do.  I DID love Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth when I was young, and I will read it again to see if I still do because I just don't know what is my deal with Konigsburg.  This book wasn't terrible, I just don't think it was interesting.  And I don't think that a kid would like it.  I don't even want to really write about it because I got so so sick of listening to it that I am just so tired of it.  It's the story of a kid who moves to Florida from NYC and befriends an old lady who is selling her house and the son of the woman who is handling her estate.  There's a lot of very interesting history here as the story weaves its way around and is tied to Sheboygan Wisconsin, the so-called Degenerate Art as proclaimed by Nazi dirtbags, and scumbag former Nazis like Ivan the Terrible and Kurt Waldheim.  So I liked the history, and I liked the adult characters of Mrs. Wilcox and Mrs. Vanderwal, and I liked Willie, the main character's friend.  But the main character himself, Amedeo, was kind of one dimensional.  It was just a weird book, I thought and I don't know how I could recommend it.