It starts out, not slow, but kind of self-evident. "Is that all there is to it?" Then, after a while, the surprises start to come. And come. And come. Did I mention the surprises?

Minutes after you've finished the book, there's a very strong urge to go back and read at least some of it again in light of the things that you now know that you didn't know on the first reading. But, unlike Fight Club, this reread is not an altogether positive experience. In FC, many things became much clearer and characters' actions more understandable when you knew what was really happening, but in this book, it's more like "Are these people absolute fucking idiots?" on the second reading. They just behave so stupidly that I at least couldn't really connect to any of the characters, they're just "things that do things in order to keep the plot going" instead of real persons.

Overall it'a a fun, in some places absolutely hilarious, read, just don't expect much more than that from it.