This book is incredibly funny at times, but I just didn't get it. If you put a gun to my head and told me to tell you what actually happens in this book--how it unfolds, I would just say my last prayers. I don't know what happened because I could never tell who was talking to whom. I heard that Burroughs wrote "Naked Lunch", then cut it up and pieced it back together haphazardly. I'm wondering if JSF did the same. I'm not one of those sissies who needs the familiar to be OK either. I admire the unconventionality of the novel, but I just could not follow it. I happened to catch a local radio broadcast of this author being interviewed and he said he wrote the book for people who were willing to work at following and understanding the story. Apparently I am not one of those, allthough I tried.