given to me by friend Dave. he handed it and said: see what you think about this. nice little portable paperback that you can take on the bus. the story grabs you and literally it takes you nowhere -which i like. it’s ugly and complainy and disgusting at times. it’s not horrific, in the sense that it’s a horror book, it’s more like an existential anomaly, like it puts you in the uncomfortable place of the characters you are reading. there is no monster really, except for the characters themselves. i thought the quote that ends the books sort of gives too much away, it could have done without it.