Perhaps the Stars

I don't know if it's because I didn't do the full required reading of Homer, Hobbes and ancient Greek mythology, but this book seemed overly long. There are moments of brilliance that made me keep going, but I still lost track of all the characters and their motivations frequently enough to make me consider aborting. All that said, it was a clever and many-layered book (or rather, series of books), just not one that I find easy to recommend.