Loved it.
I bought the book early in the summer, not realizing it was something of a cultural phenomenon at the time. I find it funny, now that I've read it and am doing a little after the fact research (want to see what the reviewers at the time had to say) that the word "hipster" is used so often. I think of the book as sad, big hearted, challenging and funny, and I don't associate any of those things with being a hipster.
And for the record, I was off base in my original approach to the footnotes. I didn't flip back and forth every time, but I only let myself fall three or four footnotes behind at a time.
Morty - you are the man. Finished it with a month of summer left. I am impressed!
ReplyDeleteI'm up to around page 400, the explanation of how the great concavity came to be.
I'm really enjoying it also & think I'll be bummed when I'm done.