Smarties and good friends have recommended this book to me. However, halfway through it I had to simply give up and admit defeat. Nothing makes any sense, the characters are only warped peices of their true selves as seen by the main lunatic--er, character. The religious stuff was the most irreligious rambling I've ever run across, and it usurped the space in which a plot might have neatly fit. In short, I didn't get it, and I think I probably wouldn't want to anyway. This is not so much speculative fiction as it is something which causes you to speculate about whether it should even be called fiction.