The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head

This book would have been better if the author had refrained from inserting his own opinions and judgements—for example, saying that Kafka was “handsome,” and also guessing at the motives behind his behavior.

Also, the narrator mispronounces a lot of words, which is grating: Flaubert, Proust, Octave Mirbeau's Le Jardin des supplices, the german word for mother, “Mutter,” etc.