I had been working my way through this at a snail’s pace for a little over two months because I enjoyed the overall idea of the novel but for some reason couldn’t sympathize with the characters or care one way or the other what happened to them. I made it about halfway through before throwing in the towel. The book was so fragmented and filled with irrelevant scenes for the sake of offering up a lukewarm joke that I just didn’t have the energy to try anymore.