Scooter Chronicles

Yesterday evening I gave up reading “The Fountains of Neptune” by Rikki Ducornet. Yes, you read that correctly. I didn’t finish it.

From Publishers Weekly via Amazon.Com, here is a rundown:

In this allegorical novel – part absurdist fairy tale, part Mad Hatter’s tea party – poet and novelist Ducornet renders a vexatiously baffling account of a mentally troubled childhood. Confined to an exotic spa, middle-aged Nicholas recreates for psychoanalyst/water therapist Venus Kaiserstiege his fantasies and obsessions, dreams that have occupied his subconscious during the several decades...

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