** some good writing early on, but greek travelogue goes on for too long

booker-shmooker. This is one of the worst novels I have ever read. Preposterous premise (clueless clones in fake 1970s "England"), preposterous narration (sample sentence: "We had sex"), preposterous dialogue (I'll spare you). On the other hand, you could use it as a handbook on how to write bad fiction. While reading it, I felt like I was trapped in a disastrous creative writing seminar.

***** some great stuff on his twisted relationships with women

*** amusing to read in spanish, especially "la tortuga artificial" (the mock turtle)

***** more great, dark short stories

***** great, dark short stories

*** attempted this in spanish; seems like a great book but hard to follow (chronology is jumbled)

*** strange, unique, funny but disjointed: reads like a series of one-liners

***** more masterpieces