This text is meant to provoke shock, outrage and disgust in many, but many texts that can provoke these extreme emotions will affect readers profoundly and stay with them for a long time. This will just make most people think 'what was the point of that?'

The violence, sex and above all the swearing are just gratuitous and largely ineffective. I'm no prude, but when every other word is an obscenity, the words lose their power. This book is a tedious, overblown 'look at me, aren't I provocative?' exercise. The only reason to read it is the novelty value of having read one of the worst novels of all time.