Frankly the whole book reads like a 1000 page pulp. If you like pulp, it's not so bad. I could name 10 sf books that are worse, even a lot of his other work. I

Frankly the whole book reads like a 1000 page pulp. If you like pulp, it's not so bad. I could name 10 sf books that are worse, even a lot of his other work. I'd take 10 battlefield earths over 1 three body problem. At least the characters have personalities