/lit/ - Literature

I finished this convoluted piece of shit a few days ago, and I've got to say /lit/ it was worth it. Around the 200 page mark there was some serious "lag" in the writing and development, and I considered dropping the book. I'm glad I didn't though, the final 60 or 70 pages had some great imagery. The writing was unlike anything I've ever seen, it really forced me to pay attention and even then it was easy to get "lost".

It's all told as a series of interconnected, shifting memories and as the narrator's sister puts it everything is introduced in "two steps backward one step forward" style. This was a thoroughly strange book, but I'm glad I read it. I have A Smuggler's Bible here but I think I'll wait a while to check that out.

Some favored quotes:
>Experience is nearly priceless, a necessity like water
>What is a bond but a suture, a divide between two wholes?
>She had left something out, I knew, sealed in a fond female act just as she had made out time a gift

So /lit/ anyone else read any McElroy? I see Women and Men on those charts all the time, but I don't know if I'd want to read it now being 1200 pages and out of print (for good reason?)