This is really more of a 3.5 or even 3.6 rating, but I just couldn't give it the full 4. I liked this book best when it was focused on the creation of the Plan and all the experiences they had when doing research on the diabolical occultists who they were planning to make money off of. I was less thrilled with the sequences happening directly before and after the events in the Conservatoire. All in all, its a solid whirlwind of lunatic occultist reasoning from the perspective of a man who doesn't believe the stories he and his friends are spinning but is constantly teetering on the edge of losing himself in the parody.