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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I liked the book and thought the whole random numbers and calculating pi thing to be kind of neat... much like Vonnegut's scribbled illustrations of assholes and the like.
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It's a gimmick, and I thought it was kind of jarring. Vonnegut's illustrations were interesting precisely because they were illustrations; a picture conveys information in a way that the written word can't. Having a string of numbers with a randomly inserted letter adds nothing narratively that isn't already said by 'I have randomly inserted a letter into this string of numbers.' My interpretation of it was that it was a way to fill whitespace and it brought me away from the narrative.
Of course, the reason I don't read film reviews is because interpreting fiction is a highly individual process. It's all a matter of taste. These are my impressions.
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