I am a freelance writer with an ego problem. I believe that because of my few bylines, the entire world is scrutinizing everything I do and say. So, to prevent an ill-worded comment made on a messageboard from somehow "getting out and SABOTAGING MY ENTIRE CAREER(!!!!!11!!!1!!!!1111111)" I'm very careful about what I say.

So you better believe me when I say this book was total fucking bullshit.

I'm not buying the crap from the people who say this was a terrifying painfully thought-out mumbledy mumble blah blah mind-expanding book. It was way too much work to follow the different threads of the story for way too little reward. There's nothing wrong with the "story-within-a-story" construct, but the attention to detail to make it seem like a real academic whatever did not serve to make the story more "realistic" or more scary...it just padded what could have been a 50-page book into an Amazon retailer's nightmare.

Don't waste your time. Overhyped.