The worst book in recorded history! I truly wish I had more to say. I had to read this book in college one year and all my friends were aware of just how disappointing a read this was because I was very vocal about it. Every time I got to a point where it made no sense (characters were switching roles and acting not at all like the beginning of the book wrote them to) I'd throw up my arms in exasperation.
The characters were very flat and 2-dimensional to begin with, but upon further dissection you realize they barely even had that. They're introduced and they have their roles to play, and not one of them seems to be any more than the stereotypical design of that character mold (which had been done to death for every archetype here). And yet, the end of the book in a sum up it's clear that not a single one does what their characters actually would do. Which isn't to say that they surprised you by being unpredictable and 3-dimensional, but that they acted so against how their characters were written and designed to that it drives you even further away from the book and any attempt you could have had at enjoying the very bad storyline that attempts to support these characters.
And the story...a WAY overly done and overexposed storyline about a family attempting to bring religion and society to a world they deem to be beneath them and without culture of any kind. And what a shock, being in this world that isn't their own changes them and makes them all see the world in a different way then they might have originally ever gotten a chance to if they hadn't gone.
Truly in my life I have never read a book that was this abysmal - and I've read hundreds upon hundreds of books in my life. Never have I had to force myself to get through a book as much as this one. Never once have I wanted to tear my flesh and scratch out my eyes because the writing style/story was so bad it actually caused me physical pain to continue reading.
I was devoted to my studies and I did well in school, but I've always remembered this book as if it were a personal vendetta my teacher had against me monopolizing the classroom conversation during discussion.
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