This book reminds me a lot of Infinite Jest. Notoriously difficult to read, deemed a modern classic, pretty divisive views on whether it's worth or not. Much like my opinion of Infinite Jest, I think it's a pretty mixed bag. There are parts of it that are interesting and caught my interest, and then there is also a bunch of gibberish. I think the purposefully difficult to read parts are pretty dumb, an a cheap way to try to make some kind of literary statement. That said, I found the characters to be fascinating, but just wish I had more opportunity to let them grow. Instead, it is obscured by the author's desire to do something novel, no matter the cost. In some ways that is admirable, but it also meant I didn't really care about what happened next. All in all, take it or leave it.