Helpful Score: 2
I'm a huge PA fan... and there is a lot of hype about this book (try finding a cheap copy.. its not easy). I finally found one and read it... while I managed to make it all the way through... it was not very good.
Lots of parts that you just want to skip through (or I did) as they don't seem to have anything to do with anything...
The whole premise (that people are sheep and just let the world/environment goto hell around them without taking action) is different and interesting.
However the story telling is hard to follow, with multiple plotlines and characters throughout and it jumping around like mad. When you finally get to where you want to stay with the plot line that's going--that's when it jumps. There are a few passages where it doesn't even stay with a single plotline for more than a page or two... that's too much work for me to keep track of. I had a hard time getting a bead on the characters in the story or seeing what they were contributing.
Like I said I finished it... but definitely not at the top of my favorites list.
Lots of parts that you just want to skip through (or I did) as they don't seem to have anything to do with anything...
The whole premise (that people are sheep and just let the world/environment goto hell around them without taking action) is different and interesting.
However the story telling is hard to follow, with multiple plotlines and characters throughout and it jumping around like mad. When you finally get to where you want to stay with the plot line that's going--that's when it jumps. There are a few passages where it doesn't even stay with a single plotline for more than a page or two... that's too much work for me to keep track of. I had a hard time getting a bead on the characters in the story or seeing what they were contributing.
Like I said I finished it... but definitely not at the top of my favorites list.
