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This is some crazy, crazy stuff. Starts out feeling incredibly ordinary for about 10 pages and then derails incredibly and keeps drifting deeper and deeper into stranger and stranger territory, but all the time with characters you completely empathize with and feel like you could meet on the street or at a cafe without ever realizing there was anything different about them. Gods and doorways, magic and relationships, siblings and grudges. So much detail, and all so enjoyable.

As usual, a lot of interesting ideas as he writes yet another recipe for escaping from the current global crisis that rampant kleptocracy and corporate welfare have created.

It starts quite slowly though and I was not really feeling the main character until somewhere into the middle of the book Even then I was hating his puppy-dog adoration of this girl he has a crush on so much for at least 2/3rds of the book, but thankfully he finally starts to seem a little more cohesive as a character towards the end.

But still worth the read and the final third definitely started to pull it together and make me care not only about the characters but about the attack they managed to do against the various tactics stages by the “plutocracy”.