Story: 2.5 / 10
Characters: 4
Setting: 6
Prose: 5.5

Themes: Autofiction, autobiographical fiction, numerology, safe sex, AIDS, writing, editing, celebrity, fame, exposure ( )

Novela con numerosos rasgos de carácter autobiográfico, se reflejan las duras condiciones de los emigrantes de EEUU

My best advice is to forget about all the nonsense surrounding the public persona of the author. Read it with an open mind and don't worry about his supposed flaws and whether he was a plagarist or not (as was said of one of his other works--not this one, apparently). Every artist understands that you take what you need from whatever sources you can scrounge together, and a strong example is Handel and Bach and other Baroque composers. It was not thought of as dishonest to recycle your material and others' material. All that matters is what you do with it. If you don't like the book, don't buy it. If you like the book, then buy it. If you buy it and then change your mind about liking it, either go back and see if you can get your money back, or be more careful next time. Read a few pages before you take it up to the counter while in the buying stage.
Puns and goofy plot lines, and all very funny to read about. Doesn't matter if it was written with one writer, 10 writers, ghost writers, translators, or whatever. Collaboration can be just as miraculous as sole creation. Our whole cult of the individual personality has gone a little bit too far. Yes, I love some of the authors who worked alone just as much as you or anyone else. But that does not rule out the possibility of beauty in team creations. It is simply either a good book or a bad book. I happen to think this is a good book.