This was a weird book. I couldn't make my mind up whether I liked the protagonist or not. He was quite funny most of the time, and some of the things he did were comical. Then there's the side of him where he starts to smother his baby (who is hardly mentioned) with a pillow, the many times he hits the various women he sleeps with, and all the mindless acts of violence and criminality in his day-to-day life.

I think the writing style is about as close to that of Ulysses as I'd like in some parts. There's one fairly long section without punctuation, and infrequent use of quote marks throughout. There's also a lot of sentences like "Dangerfield to the cabinet."

Also, no fault of the book, but I thought I'd mention that I absolutely always read MacDoon's name as McDonalds. I must have been hungry for bad food when reading this.