This book is a jumbled mess. The main character is initially developed as uneducated, unemotional and unreflective clod, which actually interested me! He then goes on to do exactly everything that such a character never would or could do. All of a sudden he is a highly-skilled deep thinker running, get this, a famous interplantetary circus company he founded himself with himself as the leading 'wise clown'. My G_d, did a sixth grader write this?