@sun I have enjoyed a few things he's written here and there but not the novel I tried to read. It's been too long and I found the characters to be the worst kind of plot devices, but maybe I just picked the wrong one. Doing PCP for the hell of it at a party when your girlfriend is calling you a retard for doing it was enough to go read something else and not come back. MC is a retard and author is making a ham-fisted point.