Chain Gang All Stars

This one ticked all the boxes for me (critical of the prison system, critical of capitalism, violence galore, laced with nonfiction bits...) and it had such rave reviews that I was really excited for it, but in the end I felt that I only got a world/characters presented to me without a plot to go along with it and ultimately I was bored of waiting for the story to actually start.
It's more of character study type of deal with a deep aura of profound depression which might be appealing to some but really isn't to me. I still want to love it because I'm always happy to see the ideas in this book enter the mainstream conversation so I'm a little conflicted on how to rate it and therefore I'm just not going to do it, for now at least.