I don't know why, but this book took me 3 or 4 times to get through. Invariably, i would read the first 10-20 pages and just stop reading it for whatever reason. I finally sat down and made a concerted effort to get through it and I'm glad I did.

I found it to be a novel concept. I was curious how he was going to present a fundamentally religious story as fiction and do so without conflicting with the religious version nor offending people. I thought he did quite a good job and answered this statement quite well: "God is omnipotent, and Satan is not a fool. There seems to be a contradiction here..."