This will probably come as no surprise, but Kaufman's novel is by far the most insane thing I've ever read. After the first 100 or so pages establish the main premise, it just goes off the rails. He will come up with plot points that are incredibly bizarre and derisive toward the main character, and then instead of resolving them, there will be a sudden time jump and they are never picked up again because the main character stopped caring. Some things you expect to be important are just one off mentions, others that I was sure would be one off gags are made into plot points. It's incredibly entertaining at parts and not so much at others but the overall result is hard to put down. I swear this book is weirder than House of Leaves.
There is one scene where he goes on an extended rant about how much he hates Kaufman and his movies, falls into a sewer hole while thinking this, is almost swept away, climbs out, falls into a second one, goes home to rant about how the uinverse is treating him unfairly, speculates that maybe even though he's always tried to be good, some kind of god is punishing him for his thoughts, starts to meditate to free himself of thoughts, then a puppet in the room starts talking to him, then the chapter ends and so far it's never brought up again
There is one scene where he stalks this Asian woman he's hardcore fetishizing, then tries to get a job in some kind of retail thing out of hope that he might come into contact with her at some point, then inadvertently charms the interviewer during the job interview, who insists on recommending him for a higher-up position, and then ends up with a high-paying job as a result. A time jump later the same woman just hangs around as a side character and he's lost all interest, in fact he actively looks down on her later
There is one scene where he's visited in his dreams by a woman who needs him to use some kind of future tech through which he lives through the moments of Donald J Trunk in a different timeline, so he starts and Trunk walks by a bunch of president dolls and then demands they make one of him for himself, they do and he starts basically falling in love with his own doll, then he wants to make the doll copresident and his staff tells him that he can't do that, so he tweets about how Ace, which is how he named the doll, is now his best friend, and starts getting extremely angry about not being able to tell everyone about who Ace is, then the main character pulls off the tech thing because he doesn't want to live through that fantasy, the woman disappears and I suspect will never be brought up again, but back after waking up he looks at his phone to see that presumably the woman instead visited someone further in the past and now the novel about Trunk is already written. It's called An Avenue of Infinite Regress and is ranked 2,898,311 on amazon. Also I swear the Trump/Trunk impressions are some of the funniest shit I've ever read
And it's 1000 pages, I'm just a little over halfway done
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Topic: The Necro Wars (Read 346209 times)