Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Spoilers for the following sections:
An Orison of Somni 451 - The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish

Ok, is this book making sense to anyone?? We seem to have reached a pinnacle of progression with Meronym, and then started going back through the stories in reverse. According to Meronym, mankind pretty much destroyed the planet and the Prescients were looking for....other civilizations? That may have been my least favorite part to read. I found the dialect and made-up words cumbersome and irritating. They started to go into the possibility of a global disaster with Louisa's story, which made sense with Meronym's. But now I'm rather confused because future stories are looking at the past stories as...well...stories/films. Did they actually happen (leading to a plot line about reincarnation) or is this all one fictional character reading about another fictional character, reading about another fictional character in a Never-Ending Story-esque sort of way, or are things actually going to tie together. There's only 100 pages left, and, after all this hype, I'm really hoping for a mind-blowing ending or I'm going to be sadly disappointed.

When I read the first page of An Orison of Somni 451 it immediately reminded me of the movie The Island (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/). Did that happen for anyone else?

Me too, especially later on!

Frobisher suspects that Adam Ewing's journal was artificial, he questions his own music (a mirror of Mitchell's structure) as "revolutionary or gimmicky?", Cavendish thinks Luisa Rey's hackneyed bright-eyed journalist vs. corporate corruption thriller might have potential (but consider his poor publishing decisions-his opinion isn't reliable either), Sloosha's Crossing was narrated orally after many years had passed-years which cloud and distort memory, the Cavendish story was made into a film (and we all know how films distort their original sources), the Orison of Sonmi wasn't even understood by anyone in Sloosha's Crossing, and from all these examples and more I do think that the entire text is meant to be inauthentic and even entirely fictitious.