/lit/ - Literature

Just finished picrel.
How are non-human characters better written than humans?

Goddamn this books is a fucking train wreck. I actively despise this book. Why? Because you read it for the spiders, literally everyone that has ever picked this up has picked it up for the sapient spiders, but it opts to shove a boring chapter of human shenanigans between every spider chapter. And the MC of these chapters is the definition of insufferable. He is a weak-ass, flaccid bitch whose idea of solving conflicts is to passive-aggressively bitch, either in internal monologue or actively at people. You'd think at least he'd make up for it it with interesting insights (he's a historian), but no, he does not offer these. His are just basic midwit views. You could not even get a witty insight out of him if you squeezed him like an orange.
And the antagonist of these chapters is just a tired "aging dictator with a megalomaniac aim" plus a bog-standard sci-fi plot element of this villain wanting to achieve this via digital immortality. Yawn inducing.