I got through 53% of this book. At first, it seemed poorly written and like a strange starship knockoff, but I was on vacation and thought why not, I don't need to think. Suddenly, the whole thing got too ridiculous. I started laughing out loud, and it wasn't even supposed to be funny. My friend looked up and I read him the passage and gave him the synopsis of what was going on, and he laughed too. The plot itself, the speed at which things happened, the people, I didn't like it. Vacation or not, I moved back to the denser, more thoughtful book I'd been reading before.