Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney, both this book was horrible and should not have ever existed (nor should it have won awards). The story initiates some fairly interesting riddles/plot concepts and uses some pretty great descriptions of the bleak city it takes place in, wait did he just use the same description a second, third, nth time?. Then about halfway through the nine hundred or so page novel it goes to the main character criticizing the writing of his journal that he started off strong, lost focus on the story and has no idea where to go with it, that he keeps reusing the same descriptions and can't come up with anything new to say, that he doesn't care about the characters in his story, etc. After a few hundred pages of this he ends the book by casually tossing out all the previous character development and side characters and shows that he was trolling the readers by reminding the reader of a major plot mystery and having the main character "solve" an unrelated mirror version of it for a character you had seen twice and have no reason to care about, nor was that character wondering about the solved non-mystery, a few more lines about how nothing in the last nine hundred pages amounts to anything, and then pretty much: good day, thanks for buying my book suckers. -Sammy.
