The ideas in the book were good, but I found the characters and the style of writing to be _awful_. It was _tiring_ to read. I think atombender explains it better. The whole style of the book was different (and in a bad way for me).

The way people/groups of people/organisations/societies acted was also not realistic. They all had the same way of reacting.

Still worth a read if you can stomach the writing.