MixedThe Canberra TimesThe main problem about Rob Doyle\'s book is deciding whether it is a novel or an episodic essay on recreational drugs ... perhaps this is a novel and the author is just having a laugh. In the end you feel that Threshold is a collection of drunken, drug-induced ramblings, sometimes followed by copious effluxions of morning-after purges. \'What I write about other writers, other artists,\' Rob says at one stage, \'I\'m writing about myself, and when I write about myself, I\'m writing about the universe.\' If you can empathise with that conceit, there will be plenty for you because, polished prose notwithstanding, it is a tedious read.
