I finished it like a decade ago so bare with me while I try to conjure up shit from my high school English class.
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I really liked how it simulated someone going insane on two different fronts, both on the narrators end and on the "official story" end. The font fuckery especially complimented Truant and his counterpart just getting increasingly more paranoid as the walls figuratively and literally cave in on them in some cases. There's a section about a minotaur stalking the main characters that really set me off at parts. Basically, I really liked how the author blurred the lines between the "official reality" of Johnny Truant and this crazy old man that had this chest full of out of order manuscripts.
You should really give it a chance again, it takes a trooper to get to the good shit.
you actually finished it? damn. whats some of the good stuff about it? it's a beast of a book if i remember right
I finished it like a decade ago so bare with me while I try to conjure up shit from my high school English class.
spoiler
I really liked how it simulated someone going insane on two different fronts, both on the narrators end and on the "official story" end. The font fuckery especially complimented Truant and his counterpart just getting increasingly more paranoid as the walls figuratively and literally cave in on them in some cases. There's a section about a minotaur stalking the main characters that really set me off at parts. Basically, I really liked how the author blurred the lines between the "official reality" of Johnny Truant and this crazy old man that had this chest full of out of order manuscripts.