Trust Exercise

There are many ways in which I didn't like this novel. Before ever getting to the different sections and the supposed meta deconstruction of fiction or memory or whatever. I cringed many times after poorly constructed sentences and overused phrases. The story of the first section was compelling enough, though there wasn't a character to like. When we learn in the second section that the first was just fiction, maybe I could say that the poor writing in the first was a construction of the novel itself. But the second section was just as bad, using again some of the poor phrasing as the first. And if this twist of the second section was supposed to be mind blowing, it wasn't. The narrator of this section is more annoying than the first, but by now I'm reading only to get through. When that section ends in an implausible “shocking” ending, and we're given a third section that makes us doubt the veracity of even the second section, I could care less.

Maybe I can appreciate the exercise here, but a novel with these aims could have more carefully construction, with the doubt woven throughout, with language less cringy, and a plot that is compelling and not built upon shocking the reader.