If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.” Well Chekhov might well have thrown ‘The Game of Sunken Places’ out the window in frustration, a book tantamount to a gun store full of empty chambers. It was Anton Chekhov who said, “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. Recommended for: There’s nothing in particular to exclude girls from this book, but it’s likely better suited to boys with its tendency to skip past all that boring emotional and character development business and get right into the action.
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