**** read this for the third or fourth time...a strange novel with a huge cast of characters...much ambivalence...quite a lot of historical background

Almost completely unreadable. Very smart dude, former academic, becomes motorcycle mechanic. I was all set to like this book. But he forgot to stop writing like an academic! He tortures syntax, overuses obscure words, drags in Kant and Aristotle; he even includes endnotes for each chapter!

very badly written marxist rant; overstates every point

**** great novel: mysterious, haunting