Armistad Maupin: Sure of you. It sounded fun, interesting, like a book I'd like.
The characters kept talking and talking and talking about their everyday little problems and it was worse than a Woody Allen movie. Talk about boring

I even tried
another of his books, just be sure, but no.
It's not even that I need action all the time - I like those "boring" bits of description in LOTR - but these people were so dull.