The Fifty Year Sword

I found this to be very well written in many places, but ultimately confusing with the style of shifting between narrators mid-sentence, and the relevance of the narration-style to the story was mostly lost on me. I feel that I may want to revisit this book at a later date and really spend some time with it, perhaps using the color-coding to determine the speaker. The word-of-mouth, gossip, shared country wisdom element was well presented theoretically, but I feel that the words didn't fall together in a way that conveyed Danielewski's intention very clearly.