>>281635083
reading the summary of this book i bet you're right that the best reaction you could hope for is it boring someone to tears. a man is led around by the nose, every authorial contrivance pitted against him, until he ends up dead, as cold as he ever was.

if something that evokes any sense of emotion in an audience is 'pornographic', what would describe something like this - a tragedy formed for its own sake, where in all likelihood both author and reader become a little more dour for their time spent? autofellatiatic?