I picked up the more recent edition of this book about six years ago based on the William Gibson blurb on the cover. I started it about five times before actually making it beyond the sixtieth or so page, but at this point, I've read it three times and can honestly say it's one of my favorites, if not my number one. You might say it's a bit of an esoteric read in the ballpark of Gravity's Rainbow and anything by Joyce (some of my other favorites), but it definitely isn't one you need annotations or a wealth of prior knowledge to grasp. Hell, you might even say it's a kind of an everyman's Ulysses or something. Either way, I don't think this book deserves some attention. And I'm especially surprised that this whole Vaporwave thing hasn't brought more light to it, since it's essentially Vaporwave: The Book. Anyway, if you appreciate deep-dives into some beautifully written post-apocalyptic stuff in which the ruins of American consumer culture serve as the rubble of the setting (abandoned malls and what not), I highly recommend Samuel R. Delany's "Dhalgren."