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In the acknowledgements section, the author reveals that it took eight years to write this book. I can certainly understand, because it took me 5 months to read it - an inordinately long time for me. I typically would have abandoned the book after about a month or so, but it does have some very funny and some insightful bits. The middle section is by far the most tedious and that is where I stalled the longest and almost gave up multiple times. Overall I'm glad for my own progress that I did stick with it. I probably would have enjoyed it more had I read Poe's original or any of the other stories that this one claims are related to Poe's novel. I also got the sense reading it that there were many more references embedded in the story than I had the knowledge to appreciate.