Funny, but the sort of precociously unaware tone of the main character/narrators in many of the stories becomes a bit gimmicky after a while. The story structure become predictable - character starts out sounding entirely reasonable while griping about something or describing a situation, character rambles on as things happen to/around them and based on their reactions to these events we start to realize they might not be all that reasonable, cut to punchline in which character reveals themselves to be utterly bonkers.

That being said, the Santaland story about his job as a Macy's Christmas Elf is a phenomenal account of degradation in the name of survival, his fairly quick adjustment to it, and the absurd anthropological spectacle that is a gigantic, fake Christmas village in the middle of a department store.