Somehow the parts where nothing happened were better than the parts where things did.

The book was desperately in need of some professional editing. For example, there was a five page, pseudo-action sequence toward the end that was not only completely irrelevant to the story, but wasn't even logically coherent.

But the book had a kind of charm that made it hard to hate. And there was actually a little bit of complexity toward the end, mixed in with the spiritual mumbo jumbo. ( )