[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I don't know what to tell you...it's really a hate it or like it book. I think if you just try and read it through once without getting caught up in the writing, you'll have an easier time reexamining it. The vocabulary there was pretty hard to grasp, although having read some of his work before that I got used to the chock full of crazy vocab he puts in. Try and understand the themes and ideas and characters more than you focus on the writing. You can always go back and study paragraphs, but you won't understand the book unless you just read it.