Does it go anywhere? Its very well written and not that big of a chore to read but aside from killing people and detailing outfits does it that amazing of a book by the end?
It's nothing short of a masterpiece.
>>8206670
Why don't you finish it and make up your mind yourself?
Or don't.
BEE's characters never grow and his books are essentially plotless. They're decent but it's the literary equivalent to staring at a train crash.
It's just satire. Don't over think it
>>8206670
"I was writing about a society in which the surface became the only thing. Everything was surface -- food, clothes -- that is what defined people. So I wrote a book that is all surface action: no narrative, no characters to latch onto, flat, endlessly repetitive. I used comedy to get at the absolute banality of the violence of a perverse decade. Look, it's a very annoying book. But that is how as a writer I took in those years." -BEE
