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I typically avoid anything that falls under the postmodern classification because it is consistently self-indulgent, meaningless, and immature. I made an exception for this book because it was listed in several sources as “one of the scariest books of all time.” Alas, this pointless piece of garbage did nothing to change my already negative opinion of the narcissistic postmodern school of thought and expression. 70% of the content is completely meaningless detail about the lives of the unlikable, two-dimensional characters. The only purpose I can see for this approach is for the author to convince the reader that he knows a lot about many different things. Based on the quality of these expository indulgences, I doubt he has much more than a shallow understanding of anything he writes about. The two actual plot lines are uninteresting cliches, shallow retellings of hackneyed descents into madness and a pseudo-haunted house trope that seemingly wants to represent some cheesy commentary on the human mind. If you for some reason enjoy the work of postmodernists, you might think this is good. If you can make it past the first 500 pages, the story line with the narrator becomes slightly more interesting, but not nearly enough to warrant the hours wasted on the first 85% of the book. The second star is for effort, as embarrassing as it may be. An attempt was made to create a unique layout (one of the book’s most annoying characteristics), and nobody writes a 600 page book without a great deal of persistence.