This books starts out interesting but in the middle gets REALLY SLOW - the only action being everybody's mouths flapping nonstop. I kept skipping ahead to see if anything interesting would ever happen again but it never did. Endless philosophizing, women "bonding" with each other, everybody preaching to each other, on and on ad nauseum. In real life these people would never have made it across the country because they spent 90% of their time talking.