I was the only person in my book club who enjoyed reading this book - which should be an indicator of something. If you enjoy books featuring many characters and detailed prose describing something that is seemingly insignificant, you'll enjoy this book. Others' complaints were that just when they felt a rapport with a character, the author switched to someone else and they had to wait too long to find out what happened. The author is clearly a brilliant and talented storyteller, but you have to first care about the story he is telling, and most in our book club did not.