>>24545027 (OP)It is essentially your standard big, ambitious first novel which falls into all the traps such novels tend to fall into; overly ambitious, lack of focus, inconsistent style, not trusting their writing/the reader, etc, but it weirdly feels consistent and focused as long as you don't look too closely which makes it slightly easier to deal with than most big, ambitious, first novels.
>>24545040I don't remember that at all? Who did that happen too?
>>24545048References don't matter in the slightest, Gaddis has Wyatt explain most everything away in his speeches. If you need to review summaries you really should just be taking notes instead.