Yes finally. While I fully accept the possibility Im just too thick to get it, I never understood the hype. I found it a slog to get through, despite it not being too thick.

It's one of those 'they showed the plot in the trailer' but for books instead of movies. It barely elaborates on the central idea, which it basically withholds as the 'big reveal'. Which works about as well as the Star Wars prequels did with the revelation that Palpatine was evil all along.

The characters are deliberately written to be as unrelatable as possible, yet its full of boring character drama between these dysfunctional people. It fails as 'big idea' scifi, and fails as an actual enjoyable book.