Things I do not like in books include: Dudes wandering around trying to get laid Jokey nods to historical situational irony Unrepentant asshole protagonists And yet here is the first paragraph of The Teleportation Accident. When you knock a bowl of sugar on to your host’s carpet, it is a parody of the avalanche that killed his mother and father, just as the duck’s beak that your new girlfriend’s lips form when she attempts a seductive pout is a quotation of the quacking noise your last girlfriend made during sex. When the telephone rings in the night because a stranger…
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