It has its moments, and I did enjoy the last disc or two of the audio book (it had a total of 10 discs), but overall I found this a very dull read. I was literally 7 or 8 discs into the book before I even started caring about any of the characters, probably because it was so difficult to wade through all of that self-conscious, self-important prose. I suppose the self-consciousness fits the main character, but it's still massively annoying. Skip this and read Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother or Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down instead.