This novel or as the author descibes it as an "antinovel" is just mind boggling. The book is filled up with repetition and certain specific research about the history of the stigmata. The stigmata is fascinating and I have always wanted to know the background and history involving it. This book really just gives the reader dates of famous stigmata recipients and then just repeats the word stigmata hundreds of times with little pieces of the authors opinions hidden in the text. This book is very much its classification as experamental..but maybe a little too much and not enough focus, interesting reading.