Anyway, wow. This guy did "social commentary projected as future society" RIGHT. He took this simple story (weak man falls in love with confused girl) and placed it in such a richly textured world and relayed it all in beautiful, sometimes complex and sometimes satirically horrible writing. The occasional passage was long-winded and a little boring, and once or twice I felt beaten over the head with one the points he was trying to make, but overall, I was immensely impressed.
I was also immensely depressed. Not only due to the hopeless track he placed America on, but because my book sucks in comparison, and we aren't writing on such dissimilar subject matter. Seriously, what I wrote looks like a book for babies next to his, an infantile finger painting next to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.
Damnit.
