i read this 2 or 3 years ago and i remember almost nothing

>>8808705
neat

yeah mediocre novel. First third is good but it goes downhill from there.

>>8808705
Anon read a great book a few years ago, and OMG HE DOESNT REMEMBER A THING. 2/10 memory, probably didnt really read it.

I thought the baseball thing, the Dodgers and Sinatra and Jackie Gleason and all, that was fantastic.

But it lost me when it switched gears, or I lost it.

In any event, I set it down not to be re picked back up.

But those first 30 odd pages were teriff.

>>8808705
Packs more into the first 50 pages than most writers managed in a lifetime

Read this ten years ago. One of the reviews was right, something like "a recapitulation of all his major motifs and themes" or something. Magnum opus or greatest hits.

NYC subway graffiti artist Moonman was memorable for being gay and finding fame thru his throwups "like I'm your movie motherfucker."

The bit where the cheating wife smokes heroin was good, and the description of the mc's brother getting The Fear after smoking super-strength hydro was so uncanny I had a vicarious panic attack.

Fuck the pomo baseball McGuffin and enjoy the ride.

The bombing raid chapter in Vietnam is some of the best writing I've ever encountered.

The Clara parts were the weakest.