thegooddoctor
9/23/2016
Incomprehensible overall, but some portions very good (B+++). Overall rating (D+). Unfortunately, there is no option of giving a Goodreads score of 1/2 star (or zero stars, or negative stars) - so I am forced to bump it up to 1 full star.
To my mind, the best, most memorable thing about this novel is a wonderful quotation Delany inserts (by Ortega y Gasset): “It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies."