SKIP IT!

Remember This?

After Barry set the all-time skip-it TM record he began reading the novel skipping absolutely nothing, thinking the title of every little fake footnote article was somehow relevant. He quickly stopped reading any footnotes that only referenced another work, growing of tired of a bad joke.

After reading a classmate blog "I'm too stubborn to let any book defeat me" Mr. Sims decided he was no chump either and if he had to read every appendix or dumb list or poem or journal entry to figure this book out he would. Some he found rewarding like the letters from Truant's mother trapped in a Whalestoe, he perhaps would not have understood how Smart Johnny really was otherwise. BS even painstakingly decoded the first letter of every word letter which left him pissed, exhausted, and wondering if the mom really got raped, but at least he felt like he gained something those who skipped it did not.

Other non-skipped portions of the book left Barry wondering if there was a camera installed in the book so that the author could laugh at the idiots who tried to look for clues in the collages or actually read the list of everything that wasn't in the house contained in blue outlined boxes or skipped ahead to an appendix to read "missing". But Sims learned his lesson from the blue boxes and decided even if the meaning of life was in the lists of architectural buildings or film people or whatever - he would not read them, he wouldn't be tricked again. And no he did not read the backwards blue boxes thank you, but the temptation to check if they were the same was there - what a sucker!

Barry read the story pretty much page by page going back and forth between Zampano and Truant, skipping ahead a page or two only to finish a footnote. The few things he consistently skipped from the beginning were any footnotes referring to future chapters or pages.