I wanted to like it more. I generally enjoyed the author's style, but felt the book dragged as it went on. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but the concept just kept getting more abstract as we went, and I didn't keep up. Also, I'd drop the "novel" conceit: it didn't do enough to support the content, IMO. Also, "liver" was overused. Funny the first 2 or 3 times, but after that it grated, and I generally enjoy running a joke into the ground...