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Younger me might have been blown away by this. Current me got bored at the faux-literary smugness of it all. I usually don't enjoy "concept novels," and this was conceptual to an extreme. I did enjoy telling people about it - how the physical words mirror what is happening in the story. That part was kind of fun. But the "mystery" behind it all...well, I couldn't care. I'm not going to spend time studying this book, though I did Google one thing. My question was not answered. Instead, I went dow
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Brilliant in parts, almost unreadably dull in others. Academic writing isn't much fun to read even when it's being parodied. I was torn between finding the strangely formatted text interesting and fun and finding it pretentious and unnecessary.
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Long horror(ish) novel, plays with: multiple layers of frame narration, formatting, typography, cement poetry and really adopts that love of footnotes that you see sometimes. Was not that scary and ending not phenomenal. Fun read, though time consuming.
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