I agree. I think there are moments in a few his books that have made me almost cry, too. I feel like a lot of his work are documentings of suffering, of modern (western) life(s) in paeticular, all the more painful cos a lot of it is mundane and hyper real. I don't really disagree with #[4] 's 'depressing' at all really. (There's also a lot going on which im failing to articulate lol and humour and absurdity in his work). But yeah, I find it hard not to be impressed with the articulation of this 'reality' and vision of further decline (life is suffering and conditions are only going to get worse lol ) in all its banality, laid bare. Just acknowledfinf and detailing it is an act of ...um bravery, I think I'll say that, really. Babbling again. It's somewhat easy to say 'life is suffering' But then to lay bare all the tedious, banal boring, everyday details and internal lives of that. Is quite something and fairly liberating to read in a way. Woke up babbling and incoherent, I don't really know what I'm getting at here lolol. Press send even tho I'm sure there's a lot more to it and I'm getting it wrong lolol