/lit/ - Literature

Anybody ever read this? I'm about halfway through and I have to say I am loving it. My gf loaned it to me because I wanted to read some sci-fi, and she seemed to feel the book was too dry and technical, but that's really where a lot of the appeal comes from. A ton of online reviews also claimed that the first half of the book was terrible, but I really loved it, so now I'm REALLY looking forward to the not-terrible half. A lot of the other negative reviews say that the author is constantly trying to impress with his vocabulary, but those people are missing the point, because he only ever does that when writing from the POV of one of the many main characters, and that's kind of his deal, since he's a bit of a douchebag professor. But since the book starts with him, I think a lot of people let that set the tone.

It really resonates with me. A lot of good ideas and great insights into the significance and predestination of humanity. Occasionally characters will say things or make observations that resonate so strongly with my own passive beliefs, or that ominously correlate with the current state of humanity in reality, that I have to just kind of stop for a second and let it soak in. It's definitely a book that will activate your almonds. The author seems to have moved on to writing fantasy, but of his earlier sci-fi endeavors, this book seems to be considered his worst, which makes me really excited to read the rest.