I'll be honest I've never read a more difficult book in my life and I've read Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses and Three Trapped Tigers and 2666. I don't really feel like I can give this a proper rating because I only understood about 20% of what was going on at any given point in time. Kudos to Lima for writing a book this dense though! Perhaps one day when I'm very old and have read much much more I'll be able to return to this book and glean something meaningful from it. I think there was gay stuff which is cool!