heads-up: worm is going to make you depressed. It is, fundamentally, an exercise in taking "hope" & the expectation for "things to generally become better", and

heads-up: worm is going to make you depressed. It is, fundamentally, an exercise in taking "hope" & the expectation for "things to generally become better", and beating it systematically into a pulp over a few thousand pages. Things, in this book, do not become better.