I can't believe I finished this book. I made it! What a long haul. I wish I could say it was worth it. 
 Reading all the other reviews, I felt like I must have missed something. But then I thought back over the book. No plot, no structure, no character development, no free-flowing story. I do not see how any of these things makes this book an 'astonishing masterpiece'. Because in my opinion it is not. 
 There is one point of the book where Bloom "could not make head nor tal of the whole business". Reading this, I know how he felt.