At first I was struggling alot with the novel, because I was trying to force myself to find a strand that I could follow throughout the book. I was looking for that underlying plot line that I could walk out until the end, and even if there is an underlying plot there I think its better to sit back and (especially for the first read) just let his thoughts come to you.
While the stream of conciousness can make the reading more difficult, it is interesting how, from a readers perspective, you have to think quite a bit more than your average novel. It isn't the sort of decrypting I normally go through when I read an older work with strange language and terminology... the kind which stresses your patience and understanding; but it is forcing me to consider the entire thing from multiple perspectives. We know the entire novel, and the events in it are being viewed through the eye of one man, so I find myself interpreting events and the author's interpretations of those events from other perspectives. I'm just closely considering the biases that are going to be written into the text, no matter how 'honest' Miller is.
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