It just seemed to remind me more of the Odyssey, the Aeniad, or the Argonautica more than "Fahrenheit 451". Most of the reviews I saw about this book referenced "Fahrenheit 451", which I can understand but in all honesty, as I was reading, I thought the story seemed more classical than Bradbury. But I don't want to read too much into that point. Bisson could be sympathetic to the idea - at least for some artworks. Enough detail about this philosophical system was presented that one might be forgiven for thinking that Mr. Multiple chapters also dealt with the history of how the system of destroying the artworks came into being and by the end of the book, the parallel stories met. I enjoyed the book, but I have to admit I enjoyed the succession of neat ideas that kept popping up as Hank traveled through future America on his quest to retrieve his lost Hank Williams album.
The main character - Hank Shapiro - is a pickup artist, whose job it is to collect the contraband art, and not sample it except he decides one day that he wants to listen to a Hank Williams album, and so his life spins out of control in a sort of combination quest and road trip. The main idea of the story revolves around the elimination of the accumulated artworks of the world, in order to open up space for new artists to flourish. "The Pickup Artist" by Terry Bisson is a novel filled with neat ideas.
So if you don't want to be spoiled, please don't read any further. Warning! I spoil plot points in this review.
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