DNF @ 40%

I hate DNF'ing, but this is just not the book for me. I'm not a fan of meta style books that pretend to be nonfiction, and the incredibly dense and dry way this is written honestly made it feel more like a 600 page essay than an under 300 page fiction. The sheer amount of random, unnecessary details made it both uninteresting to read and the whole concept of it being pieced together from mostly 2nd and 3rd hand accounts incredibly unrealistic. I wanted to really like this book, but the mystery element was so buried in faux-research and philosophy that I genuinely dreaded picking it back up.