sorry but am i being collectively gaslighted by the 4.13 rating? this was shallow drivel dressed up as profound literature. he lures you in with cool ideas—parallel universes, talking cats etc—and then sucker-punches you with some of the most deranged disgusting plots imaginable (rape pedophilia incest) and leans on shock value disguised as exploring the human condition to mask the fact that he wrote 505 pages of nonsensical gibberish. he recycles the same pretentious nonsense banking on readers projecting meaning onto his vague half-baked ideas. i also refuse to believe his "fans" aren't just going with what's trending. they get to pretend to be all deep and intellectual while in reality they're slogging through the same empty pseudo-philosophical fluff