This book doesn't so much glorify pop-culture as it has become pop-culture. It's been at least 25 years since I read this weird tripping experience of a book. I don't think I was able to appreciate it the first time around but at least it made me want to read more SF.

My second reading was fascinating on a completely different level. "Did they really name Deep Thought after Deep Thought?" I had never realized.

This book has been ingrained so deeply on the shared consciousness we named "pop-culture" that it is so very satisfying to read this and realize where so much of it came from.

Despite all the fun I find it to be somewhat tedious to read with the meandering go-nowhere-quick plot and the weirdness that makes it somewhat hard to keep track of everything. In that it is like very dark chocolate which I can only enjoy in small bites.