Perhaps I will, one day. Buy it at a discount from BOL 6. This is where I go when I just want some pure storytelling thrills. Ford writes a lovely sentence, and he piles them up to produce plots that never really close, so there's no sense of being manipulated. Glinting American prose, with a hard-bitten romanticism shot through.
Losers predominate, searching for a way out.
Buy it at a discount from BOL 7. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus Like House of Leaves, this is another American book that filled me with envy. It's a description of various objects, all seen in a unique light, with a kind of hidden narrative connecting them all. A bit confusing at first, until you give yourself up to the mood, then strangely addictive. Very, very powerful imagination at work here.