What an awful story, but beautifully told! Nasty characters, but wonderfully described. Terrible philosophy, but appealingly submitted. I hated that I loved it.

I feel like this story was being told out of order. Such a strange series of events and memories and odd descriptions of random people. Egh.

My feelings about this book are best described by this quote from the book: “I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

Why did I read this stupidity? I knew before I started that I would hate it. But I didn't hate it enough to stop reading. I got entranced somehow.