". . . like the episode of Mino and the bird, he often caught himself living in the mistaken belief that transformation was the same thing as progress. Things could look very different while remaining the same: time could seem to have altered everything, without changing the thing that needed to change."

As with Outline, I seem to find myself utterly in awe of this impersonal, distanced and the-reader-is-the-judge style of prose, while also exasperated by a narrator that should have been better fleshed-out. Learning and listening to so many people's stories, while having to entertain the belief in this cardboard, absent instance at the other end of the conversation. And as always, the ending missed its mark for me; perhaps the first lines contain such an engrossing bang, a beautiful flow tide, only to have the book end on the ebb. I do hope Kudos will finally be the 5 stars read for me out of the series.