Definitely Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolf

room temperature and position to sleep in is

Iirc he concludes that the best way to sleep with one leg exposed and one under the covers, which is 100% based and true

Yeah, its the only book I’ve ever put down. I got as far as the scene in the library where they are talking about something… shakespeare I think? There weren’t enough ideas that I could latch onto in any way to have fun with it. Maybe my vocabulary just isn’t big enough? Idk, i’ve read other ‘difficult’ books before and have never had so much trouble connecting

The anti alchemist circle jerk continues round and round