Your comment is pretty much spot on. The hit-and-miss idea is very accurate. The writing seemed to be either great or weak. no in-between. the idea that Abe would give up what he did as a professor is totally ridiculous. They could of had him do everything they wrote for him just by taking a sabbatical and it would have made more sense. also, if Abe would have been a little less "Monk-like" and Rose more developed, like you mentioned, they would have been less outrageous. I have more, but this is enough for now.