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I don't know, I don't know. The first half of the book was kind of annoying and boringly paced, and I would have abandoned it had it not been recommended by other readers whose tastes I respect. There were some laugh out loud moments in the first half and some nice character/human nature studies. The plot really picked up in the second half and held my interest a lot more. To me the strongest part of the whole book is its centerpiece scene of a wild out of control party: it was gripping in a mesmerizing and hallucinatory way and [reviewer pretentiousness alert] it reminded me (in a complimentary way) of the Circe chapter of Ulysses. Everything was very well done in this party scene, and it was this scene alone that made me like the book more than I would have. If someone had described the elements of this book for me ahead of time (a possibly unreliable narrator, grammar jokes, chapters ending with discussion questions) I would have thought this was totally the book for me. But alas, it didn't really work for me all that much.