I ended up skipping the majority of the narrative sections from about page 100 onwards, but mostly they were relatively short so I probably only skipped 70 pages or so. The stories are sooo good (although the world's biggest TW for everything under the sun jesus christ. If you are trigged by absolutely anything I do not recommend you read this book) but the narrative just felt redundant, restating a million times the same point and messages which you got from the stories anyway. I didn't enjoy this anywhere near as much as I enjoyed Fight Club, but it was good enough to definitely not be my last Palahniuk.