"exhausted by Mark Z Danielewski's dense and overly-complicated tome"

[the Robot Vegetable]

> Yup.  It's all balanced on that signifier that doesn't
> signify, the Tristero (whose muted post-horn is my
> only tattoo, on my left arm.  The artist who did it
> was a bit disappointed that it was so simple.  I think
> it cost 30 bucks.)  Oedipa is, brilliantly IMHO,
> stripped of primal plots, and left with signifiers
> that don't signify and an abscence that is telegraphed
> by the novel's teasing last line.  Pynchon is right in
> complaining that it's a story based less on character
> than on some structural approach, but like the best
> experiments of Georges Perec, it is an excersize in
> style that becomes, in its telling, a humane tale.


	This sounds a lot like Mosley's _Accident_, wherein
the atmosphere gives out that something nasty happened, but
ultimately, there's no there there.