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Summary: I can't believe someone thought this stuff up!
Review: Wow. I am generally considered pretty darned weird, so when I am blown away by the fabulous weirdness of something, that something is a unique work. And this work astounds me. Someone (the brilliant Witcover) not only found a way to put his bizarre inner world on paper in a way that made it coherent and palpable to the reader open to entering it, he managed to impose coherent plot and narrative upon it. No small feat, juggling all that. World-building at its peak. So, of course, this all means that few people read it, it is well nigh impossible to convince people to read it, and it is incredibly difficult to obtain. I am a nauseatingly law-abiding person but I am tempted to steal my public library's copy before it deteriorates and is weeded. Yes, it is disturbing and even distressing to some readers. Much as I would like to increase its readership, I would not recommend it to just anyone. But if you are looking for something new, dive in with an open mind. Perhaps the highest praise I can give a work is this: if you do go into it with no preconceptions about it, without a thought to what genre it ought to be shoehorned into, you will either love it or hate it, find it astonishing or disgusting and disturbing, but you will not, I guarantee, shrug your shoulders and say, "Meh." P.S. Mr. Witcover, can I have your email address?
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