As a child, I had fantasies of spending a night locked in the public library with nothing but a pillow and a flashlight. As a bibliophile yourself, you have probably entertained that idea also. You get why I wanted to stay at the Library Hotel for my New York excursion.
Manhattan
A New York State of Mind
That is the beauty of this book. Through Julius, we see so many people and places on their own terms and our own final discomfort with the character is mainly due to our own expectations of what a human being should be.