The novel that imprinted itself on me the most when I was a teenager was described by Publisher's Weekly as follows: (though I didn't run across this until rece

The novel that imprinted itself on me the most when I was a teenager was described by Publisher's Weekly as follows: (though I didn't run across this until recently) "Writing with a pretentious, almost adolescent sensibility and a bad case of logorrhea, --- whines unremittingly in a single-pitched, overwrought stream of consciousness that will probably alienate most readers... ...premise is interesting enough, her characters are one-dimensional monomaniacs engaged in a disturbingly simple-minded, voyeuristic search for altered states in bona fide pathology" Or, as some reviewer on Amazon said, this book sucks because the characters are all losers.