The Interface Series

This “book” began as a series of Reddit comments by user _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 in response to unrelated posts across the site. They were bizarre interconnected microfictions about LSD, flesh-interfaces, body horror, addiction, and summers in which your mother is not your mother.

It was very weird, but that was of course the point. Eventually a sub as created for the user who then focused all their posts there and made it into a proper story (albeit in a very untraditional medium) that is on Goodreads and everything. It's a fix-up by way of creepypasta.

Its first 2/3rds are captivating and sickening and insane and awesome. But at some point he realizes he has to payoff all the story threads he's been weaving, and it just... all falls apart.

What becomes clear is that the author was making it all up as he went along, and it results in this sort of “drift” happening to the story, so that the beginning of the book is absolutely nothing like the end. He loses everything that made it special and ends up down some very hacky roads instead. Really disappointing.

That said, it's such a unique experience that I can't bring myself to rate it less than 3 stars. I'm very glad I read it, and I would absolutely recommend it to people, but my advice? As soon as it stops being interesting, just drop it. It won't win you back.