This is definitely one of the most WTF?! books I've ever read. I didn't know anything going into it, and that was probably for the best. I might not have read it if someone had tried to explain the plot. And I've tried to explain the plot verbally to friends: IT IS TOUGH. So I won't try here.

The audiobook is narrated very monotone. Now, the way I see it, this was probably on purpose given the amount of repetition in the prose (the dialogue and narration had the same verbal tics - like starting several, several sentences with "The way I see it") and the satiric bent of the whole thing. It starts out very much "woah woah woah wait a minute" and then kind of devolves into something less interesting given that I have no care for any of these very-much-the-same characters. There were a lot of laughs and it made me shake my head smiling, which is why I ultimately liked it, but I still became bored and it waned on me. It seemed almost like a Palahniuk book--completely absurd and unsure if you're supposed to be 'enjoying' it.

Well done to DeWitt for something pretty original, but I'm not sure I could ever recommend this to another person. I don't think I'd recommend the audiobook--perhaps hearing the same phrases over and over again in a monotone voice was worse than reading them and imagining differences between Lucille and Joe and Renee, etc.