Heartbreaking Works
Did I mention that I read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius?
Hopeless romantic that I traditionally have been, I actually liked the gimmicks and the descriptions of the Bay Area more than the plot and the very capable prose style. If you write gimmicky books about the Bay Area (preferably lipogrammatic in e, you know: "San Francisco and its surroundings, a story about that"), I will no doubt like them.