This is just really rather tedious in its endless, endless rambling. I can't quite see myself giving it one star, because many of the sentences are attractive creatures and some of the imagery is lovely. Strung together, the whole should be more appealing than it is but the horrible shapelessness of it, the entire amoeba-like structure, made it something I had to force myself to finish. Like listening to a slightly dotty old relative meander relentlessly through a (supposed) story after half a bottle of sherry, it's something to suffer through out of politeness rather than enjoy.

I don't have a "once is enough" shelf but if I did this would be on it.