If nothing else this book reminds you of why you can't take blurbs seriously.As the excerpts fromthe review would have it this is a masterpiece.Not!The author throws too many chararacters at you too soon and you can't remeber whothey are or figure out why you should care.You quickly learn to distinguish goodies from badies.Good-Athieists,Gays,Progressives.Bad-everyone else.Wer'e in a shallow PC world here.Still the author can be pretty funny.I suspect this would be a much better book if it didn't try so hard.He is a good observer and clever but he is not a thinker.