Remainder

Remainder

2005 • 308 pages

Ratings11

Average rating3.4

15

The narrator gets hit over the head by a mysterious falling object, and wins an outrageous amount of money in the settlement. Ok.

Then, he begins to use his newfound wealth to create experiences that remove his sense of artificiality with his life. He does so with a series of staged reenactments of real life events and places.

While at first a weird but interesting read, Remainder began to strike me as repetitive and just a bit too weird for my tastes. This was a tough read for me; I eventually finished, but it was tough to get there.

May 1, 2008