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  • I don't think so, even if the erratic grammar and broken semantics are deliberate.

    My problem with Will Self is that he doesn't seem to be a novelist, even if he wants to be one; and who'd blame him, it's something any writer secretly aspires to. But his novels never end satisfyingly. They don't really end at all. And if they did, it would still be marred by the way they meander tediously in the middle.

    Heh, you articulated that much better than I could. That was my point - the book of dave was just page after page of dirge. I'm old fashioned, I like plot, beginning, middle and end. And as for the grammar/language thing - it was a poor relation to A Clockwork Orange in that respect in my opinion.

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