It's okay. It's written sorta weirdly, with ~experimental~ structure and style, but not too much so. It's pretty pretentious, with a lot of masturbatory chapters and scenes that seem to mainly serve the purpose of making the author feel smart and edgy, but also the author is actually kind of smart and edgy so he gets to do that, I guess.

Reading about this book online will make you think this is the most difficult read, the most intelligent, the most experimental and groundbreaking book of all time. The book's marketing department did a good job. But to be honest, there are harder-to-read, more intelligent, and definitely more experimental books. The only part of its reputation it ends up remaining true to is its length - this could have easily been 200-300 pages shorter without losing much.

The emperor isn't naked for sure, but he's probably just wearing like maybe some jeans and a nice hoodie.