I'm about 375 pages into this book and have to confess that my compulsive tendency is the only thing driving me to finish it. I hate not finishing a book and only the dregs get thrown into the recycling pile before I've read the last word. This one is almost there. Purporting to be about the big idea of the battle for the Vellum between the angels etc, I find that it is mostly about nothing much and nothing much actually happens. Streams of boring prose are spewed forth page after page while nothing of substance advances the "BIG" idea. Characters ramble on forever. Advancement of the story is almost nil.If you like this sort of purposeless meandering, you probably would like Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon, only Pynchon is a vastly better writer.