I thought it was okay. It was less strange than I had anticipated (and wanted); mostly just overly sexual. There were some minor weird elements to it, but I've read so much odder things that this left me a little disappointed. I am not familiar with Cave's music either; maybe I would have appreciated it more had I done a little musical research prior to reading it. It wasn't a bad book and made for a pretty quick read, I just wasn't all that crazy about it.