fantastic review! (Score 1)

This review is fantastic: it thoughtfully discusses the major characters, themes, and structures of the book, and places those discussions in the context of the author's other works and the trilogy as a whole. I think that the people who have complained that the review is too long and too complicated just haven't read enough real book reviews. Try reading the New York Times Book Review; that's the way literary criticism is done. And as others have said -- if the review is too long and complicated for you, you probably won't like the book. And while yes, there were spoilers, I don't think they would hurt your enjoyment of the book much at all. Fiction this complicated deserves multiple reads. It's a different book each time. Like Cryptonomicon and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, these stories unfurl in the reader's mind. The real story is something that can't be represented on paper.