This was a rather odd book. Reading it I felt it was really amazing and deeply profound, and I was just missing it, or it was written by a crazy person who really had no idea what they were writing about. Having some sense of actually *being* in that space where what is going on is either "profound" or "crazy" I can say that actually *did* appeal to me. 
 I didn't *try* to understand it. There are some really odd constructions in it. Howl starts with something like a 500 word sentence. (looks to be printed as about 200 lines, with between 3 and 8 words per line, I would say 500 words is not at all an exaggeration, may be closer to 1000 words) which you just read. If you really try to keep the whole thing in your mind, you almost certainly will fail. 
 Still. It was really quite enjoyable to read. For the *most* part, you could just pick it up, read a page or two, or just go read the whole thing in one sitting. The book is 57 pages long. That includes the front material. 
 That feeling that it wasn't really "understandable" was a bit of an issue with it. I mean, I kind of liked that aspect of it, but I also found it very difficult to really feel it was amazing because of that.