Definitely more accessible than some of his other fiction. Doesn’t seem to have been exposed to as much of the “cut up” technique as other stuff I’ve read. Which basically means as the narrative continues you don’t keep running into nonsensical, random additions to the text like “the smell of anal mucus”. That being said it was still ultra bizarre. Sort of a western science-fiction mash up with some disparate meanderings in the storyline. As an aside there was a mention of an anti-vaxxer group as pertains to smallpox and the narrator just says “we let them catch the disease and die”. And the novel was written in 1984.