Admittedly, the book is more a triumph of imagination than of craft. I won't argue there. That said, I agree with the comment that it takes a few reads to real

Admittedly, the book is more a triumph of imagination than of craft. I won't argue there. That said, I agree with the comment that it takes a few reads to really appreciate. The writing has its flaws, but it has its real charms. And those charms can be lost on a first read-through. Many of them were on me when I first plowed through the book. (It is not a book to be plowed through, I would later learn).