With its many pages of stupid, perverted sexual activity (prettied up by calling it "feeding the ardeur"), and the talking, talking, talking about the relationship(s), there wasn't any room for like ... an actual story. And would it have killed somebody to edit and proof the thing? Off-putting and boring as all get-out. As far as the series (and quite possibly anything else from LKH) I'm tapped. Borrow this from your library - I'm SERIOUS.