I would need to read this a second time to understand what I just read, but I don't intend on doing that. This book reads like Homer took mushrooms and rethought The Odyssey. I think I'd recommend it, but I'm not positive I comprehend it. No, I'm sure I don't comprehend it. Still, I enjoyed a lot of the passages. There were some Buddhist themes and interesting thoughts on masculinity vs. femininity. For a book that was published 100 years ago, I was surprised I didn't find anything uncouth or culturally insensitive. The author goes into a ton of detail describing what the protagonist is seeing on the alien world. He really painstakingly paints a picture with words. Some people might enjoy that level of description. I think it's excessive a lot of time.