Review for The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman:
This surreal novel is dense, intense, serious brain food. It's obviously highly informed by critical theory and philosophy. It took a while to read because as I went along, I would space out every couple of pages, my mind veering off on a tangent inspired by what I was reading. Topics like bureaucracy, media & technology, semiotics, the nature of time and matter, globalization, phenomenology vs. rationalism, existentialism, societal structures, the imagination, and a whole host of other things. If you have a taste for the weird and like philosophical novels, don't miss this one. ( )