A review by rebus
Ex Libris by Matt Madden

4.5

While I could never get through or enjoy much of the type of avant garde literature this is based upon, I can say that I enjoyed this one immensely. I especially appreciated that school taught the narrator how to act and speak convincingly about things he didn't understand, which I see in almost 100% of the upper middle class professional types who are the idiots sadly running our world (oh, but they came from good backgrounds and speak so well, validated by corrupt parents who turned them into narcissists). I also found it amusing that he makes fun of the simulation theory some moronically adhere to (it allows even more corruption to go on, of the sociopathic variety). We all see ourselves in these stories. Indeed, the entire conflict of life becomes evident when he says he is tired of allowing outside forces determine his narrative, for isn't that the sole purview of the privileged. 

I supposed what I loved most was the theme of being trapped, as I've always felt my life was one of running away....