Again, this seems to be a book which grabbed many critics because science fiction is great but most critics don't read it. So when sci-fi somehow wanders on to the approved reading list of people who think they are generally ABOVE sci-fi, they say "Hey, this is really creative!"

I can't tell you how many people warned me about how challenging this book is to read. Yeah, not so much. Try keeping track of the all reincarnations in the Years of Rice and Salt.

I'm having many of the same reactions to this book as I did to the movie Interstellar. As modern literature goes, it's good. But as sci-fi goes, it's meh.

I really dislike text in future "patois." Look, I don't read Chaucerian English either, so I understand that language drifts over time. But why would anything uttered a 500 years from now be more intelligible to me than Chaucerian English? So futzing around with 20 percent of the language to make it seem futuristic is just annoying.