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I am officially abandoning this book. The chances of resuming it are going to be slim to nil. I don't know if it was the English translation's fault, but reading this book felt like eating cardboard. There was a moment or two of inspired writing but they were few and far between. Comparisons to Joyce and Pynchon are so off base that I have arrived to the conclusion that critics lauding this book had ingested copious amounts of peyote or LSD before reading.

Finished 12/1/10. I was ready to be totally wowed by this, but was not. Bummer. ★★★☆☆