Crazy as a Loon

[khana]

Conveying your character's mental state of confusion, restlessness and anger so well into your first 20 pages that your reader wants to throw the book out of the window or at least against a wall (and would have done, in my case, would I not have had to read it for the seminar [And is that even the correct tense? Done too much thinking today.])?

Really not the way to go, Mister Doctorow.

After out Dozent offered this explanation, the narration made at least remotely sense to me, but really, having your readers hating the text and not wanting to continue reading it is at least three kinds of stupid.