So many things in this story make one too many appearances

it's like a house of mirrors - you're reading along and then so and so sees something or does something that someone else just saw or did 5 pages before or fifty pages before, or both - and then as if that's not enough, someone else'll see it or give it a go one more time just in case you didn't forget you'd already seen it, heard it, read it before - argggh - it's like sitting next to a drunk who says "did I tell you about the one where . . . " um, yeah you did!