This is a book I kept picking up and then putting down because I couldn't get into the language. I think it's a great book if you can stick with it long enough to start putting things together and making connections between the separate narratives and the characters, but it's tough to give it that much effort and invest yourself in it. It was worth reading, and I'm glad I did stick with it, but I can understand how many can't. Some people didn't finish the book, and some were glad to have read it because it was something they wouldn't have picked up themselves.