Help - I can't get Howie out of my head
I absolutely HATE the Mezzanine ...is what I would have said if you had asked me what I thought after reading the first few chapters. I was pretty bored and frustrated that I had to spend so much time reading about some dude who liked to think, and then promptly think about those thoughts. Now that I have read the whole book, I understand what it was trying to do- create a book that focuses on the small details with the minimal amount of plot necessary to be considered a novel. One thing I really liked about this book was that it made me aware of how much people think about meaningless things (no offense Howie). However, I think my initial frustration with the book is part of its point. The way Baker spends pages and pages writing about trivial things such as shoelaces makes you sort of resent his tangents. As he droned on and on I beca me bored and constantly finding myself asking, "Why does this matter?" However, as I kept reading the...