3 of 5 stars

This kind of read like Kafka on acid. By the end of the book, the writing was getting a bit better, but I still struggled with it. It is experimental, and I used to like that when I was younger, but I think it was too much stream of consciousness/experimental writing without enough under-structure to keep it up. In another year, I might have given it 2 stars, but my 2 star books this year were much worse than this book.

So as not to totally leave a negative feeling, I think there were some cool snippets. One sentence that was absolutely stunning in its potency was “An insane impatience for death was driving mankind to a second suicide, even before the full effect of the first had been felt” (p. 164).