content: I've never given a book a negative review, preferring to "say nothing at all if you can't say something nice ..". This, however, was a truly awful book - one I am sure would never have been published if the author wasn't already Someone Famous. I've never read a novel and had to take so many breaks to puzzle over what in the world was the author trying to say; flipping back pages and rereading in the hopes that this (previously excellent) author was perhaps making sense after all. No dice. I had to laugh out loud when I saw that there were positive reviews comparing this effort to Lovecraft or Poe. The only "dream-like" quality this book had was that it is nightmarishly bad. It is self-indulgent, disjointed, disorganized, and poorly imitative of a half-dozen horror authors. Mr. Ellis has done himself, and his audience, a disfavor with this silly effort.