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Title: Self indulgent
Review: Self-indulgent post-modern hall of mirrors. If you want that, I recommend INFINITE JEST instead. Sections of inspired prose, but too much pastiche of academic media studies. Deliberately hard to puzzle out: There is some erudition, but more often the difficulty is simply the layout (mirror writing, e.g.). Frequently more attention is paid to the layout than the prose. I read SF/F/H. Stripped of the gimmickry nothing is new. Hodgson's HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND and Lovecraft. BLAIR WITCH, POLTERGEIST, and HELLRAISER. I read the whole thing to find what happens, but found it not worth the effort. Ending is anticlimactic.
