Summary: Um, stuff happens, more stuff happens, the narrrator refers to things that are going to happen later, no real plot that I can discern. It's bascially the life story of this one guy. (and this time the lack of definable plot doesn't bother me because it's not bloody obvious; it's hidden behind the fact that the story is bascially a string of anecdotes that sometimes bear resemblence to being in chronological order.)
Response: I liked this book, probably because it was random and the guy's experiences were so far from anything else I've seen/heard/read before. With the single exception that the book initially reminded me of Galapagos in that the first few chapters have a bunch of background information as well as giving you an idea what's going to happen later ("These are the characters. The ones marked with a asterisk will be dead by sunset"). Not surprising, considering they have the same author...
I enjoyed this book, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone who expects books to have a reasonable amount of logic in them.
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