I really enjoyed the main story, but didn't love the story told through the footnotes.
I did end up reading it at a great time, though. It was the first book I read after finishing college, and I had just completed a film studies degree. It felt fitting that -- after all the film essays I had to read during college -- the first thing I read was a fiction book written like a film essay.
i tried to read it once and gave up. i think i appreciate it more for its uniqueness and the actual physical design of the book which is all weird and fucked up
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.
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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.
I started reading it like a week ago and got through around 150 pages. All those stories about a dude having like a billion of one night stands are kinda obnoxious. Are those parts supposed to be parody? Are they setting up something? Does it get better?
I honestly dont remember that part, but its supposed to be setting up an unreliable narrator. Stick with it, it gets better.