What a wonderful imaginatively described world - then it's wonderfully, imaginatively described some more, with lots of inventive, esoteric terms for mind states - and then some more description - and then some more - with little action, then less, then less, as we wander through characters' memories, philosophies, observations . . . You get the picture. Brilliant idea, poorly educated, and, worst of all, unresolved at novel's end - you'll have to buy another book, and after that one more, to find out the resolution. And I just CAN'T labor through any more florid descriptions. So, reluctantly, I say: don't buy it.