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See allGreat start, then got annoying with the forced marriage. Stopped reading, may consider flipping forward and reading if the marriage junk disappears.
Interesting commentary, but the repetitive phrasing and style start to get in the way of the narrative. Also, he does such a great job summarizing the concept in the first few chapters, and then it's so interesting hearing how he ended up in this job, that once he starts telling the nitty gritty story of his time in Java, it's a bit boring, because we've already covered it so well at a slightly higher level.
Gave up partway through the audiobook. The teenage characters seem accurately written to being teenagers, and irritate me to no end.