3.5 stars. I thought this was going to change my life and all it did was take up 3 whole weeks of my precious summer!!

The ‘ergodic’ element is definitely interesting and made for a fun read, but I think using the actual words to emulate the chaos and lack of center of literary deconstruction and postmodernism is much more effective (Auster’s City of Glass, for example). The metafiction themes and typesetting probably felt way more revolutionary in 2000. In conclusion I’ve been reading too much theory to be impressed by this, and it was generally unsatisfying!