Although it bogs down some in the middle, overall this is a fascinating / infuriating / perplexing / upsetting view into Chris Kraus's mind. The books worked least for me when Kraus's sense of inferiority which most palpable, Because then she comes across most (As One of the other reviewers points out) as a desperate, pathetic woman who you really do not want to be reading about, but on the whole, I found it a deeply engaging, well-written, very honest look at the not very uncommon phenomena of obsession and fastasy.