This could have been a really great book if it hadn't been for the unnecessary masturbation fantasies and the overuse of the word "fuck" in it's various forms. While the characters were engaging and the story continued to draw the reader along, the gratuitous sexual references and the obscene language really ruined what could have been a great work. The writing was clever - I particularly enjoyed that the footnotes and afterword were by a fictitious character in the book. Lots of intelligent whit, unfortunately eclipsed by the pornographic content and the distracting swearing.