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Just finished Dhalgren by Delany. I didn't know what I was going into. I read it because I was looking for a different Delany book and they didn't have it in the bookstore. It is amazing, difficult and quite fascinating. In a way it is a masterpiece with all the problems of being a masterpiece - it is gorgeous, has parts that echo and has parts that I had to bookmark because they are just that beautiful. But at the same time it is a doorstop, is extremely difficult, at time doesn't make sense, has modernist pyrotechnics of language, and offers no resolutions. (I like the fact that it is open-ended beyond normal, but I understand why that is a major problem)