Having never read a book by this author, I was not sure what to expect. After our class discussions I was expecting an off-the-wall collage of insanity, but I was pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed the use of cliches about love in the beginning. I know its cliche to use cliches in one’s writing, but I’m pretty sure they work well when the author recognizes the cliche and uses the cliche as a cliche. ha. The lack of gender given to the narrator removed any assumptions about him/her/it that I was prepared to make, and I thought it worked to the author’s advantage ( partly because I read Barthes “The death of the Author” for 330 today). My only regret about the lack of gender assigned to the narrator was that I can assume there won’t be any vividly detailed accounts of gettin it on. I hate reading good books for class because I can never do the minimum reading-I always finish the novel instead of doing work for my other classes (writing poetry).
