/lit/ - Literature

Can someone with no knowledge of the old Myst computer games please read Myst: The Book of Ti'ana and tell me your opinion? I read it when I was young and thought it was a really cool science fiction novel on its own.

Premise:
>woman and her father are geologists studying an extinct volcano in a desert
>unbeknownst to them, deep underground is an isolationist civilization of human-like people called the D'ni
>the D'ni have a revered art of writing "linking books" where they describe a world in writing and then are able to link to a parallel world that matches the description

I know books based on games are typically shit, but consider that the Myst games are about exploring and figuring out how machines work, so they're already kind of science fictiony, kind of like Rendezvous with Rama. Also it's a prequel to another prequel novel that ties in more with the games, which was decent but not quite standalone like pic related (also there's a sequel book which is good for a few chapters then the rest sucks).

Anyway I think it's a cool setting - a geological camp at a volcano in a desert, and an underground city, and of course parallel worlds that are essentially like other planets that can be visited just by touching a page on a book.