Status Updates From Satantango

I'm not really sold on this one... The characters have no personality and it's SO DENSE without any reason. This kind of books do very well when the characters are well-written, unlike here... Without strong characterisation, it's just a blob of complex sentences trying to sound deep – pretentious with very little to back it up (coming from what you'd call a 'pretentious' reader)

“Until now she had always believed that it was failure only that was intolerable, but now she understood that victory too was intolerable, because the most shameful element of the desperate struggle was not that she remained on top, but that there was no chance of defeat.”