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The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker is a fiction novel that takes place during the lunch break of an office worker named Howie. This book highlights the microscopic details of simple daily life activities like riding up an escalator. Personally, I strongly dislike this book. Maybe this is just personal preference, but in my opinion, a book where you have to wonder what the plot is defeats the whole purpose of a novel. While I was reading this book, there were multiple times where I forgot what the book was about because it felt like reading random thoughts inside someone's head with no substance. What motivated this author to write this? What did he think people's reaction to this book would be? What defines a Novel? According to the Oxford Dictionary, a novel is "A long written story with characters and a plot, like a mystery or a romance". This book is definitely a long written story, with characters some form of a plot, but it is definitely not a good novel. m...