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» You may recall reading how sales for The Third Policeman shot through the roof after it was featured last season on Lost. Now, in NPR's series "You must read this", author Charles Baxter describes it as "the funniest and scariest book ever written".

It's not nihilism. [...] We're plunged into a comic nightmare, where language...keeps going out of control or manages to flop out of the boat back into its native element. [The narrator] learns that in the world of eternity, you can see treasures but can't enrich yourself with them. This is nihilism? It's the opposite -- a world supersaturated with meanings and consequences.