Zeroville

It's fine. Adopts a Forrest Gump narrative juxtaposed with a Chancey Gardner type protagonist who develops an absolute love of cinema. It's endearing for a while despite the evident absence of novelistic tendencies like characterization. Occasionally, the side characters feel like an extension of the writer's thoughts about cinema. The burglar waxing lyrically about Now Voyager comes to mind. I appreciated how the short chapter breaks resembled a film, and as a cinephile myself, I loved all the film references. But in terms of an overarching theme or anything to take away from the novel? Well fuck continuity, I guess?