The Little Stranger

So I would just like to point out how appropriate the title of this book is: The Little STRANGER, because we have NO clue what the hell is going on almost the entire time. There were very few moments of clarity, the rest of the time we have to endure Dr. Pretentious drone on: "Ohhhh poor poor me, my parents are oh so poor, I'm a hick country doctor and everyone else has more moneyyyyyyy I have a man crush on Dr. Seely..." blah blah BLAH. I swear I wanted to bang my head against the wall for all the "my sad little bachelor apartment above my sad little surgery" references. Seriously. Every. Freaking. Chapter. For at least two pages. I understand that Waters was trying to create a story through a narrator not in the direct actions, but she really needed to work on not picking such a stick in the mud to narrate. Or cut down his WAY overly wordy descriptions of EVERYTHING.
I just couldn't get past this over narration to dwell on our "uncanny" events. However, I would also think that with a boring, over-narrating narrator we could have gotten some more juicy action, but the most insignificant and least attention grabbing things would happen. I pictured our story line as one big flat line rather than having rising actions and falling actions. It was one flat line tilted slighting upward, with no real satisfaction or true feeling of building actions.
Plus I found it to be far too predictable. I knew that Susan was our "little stranger" very early into the book, and it was far too obvious that Roderick and Mrs. Ayres would lose their minds, and that Caroline wouldn't get married and take her own life.
I know that was some hard-core bashing, but I found this book to be majorly disappointing.