No, I don’t believe in her philosophy taken to the nth degree as she does in this book. The heroes have no flaws; the rest of the world has no redeeming value, all truly reprehensible souls. There’s nothing in between. It’s her way or the highway, and I’m the kind of girl who wants to cruise a backroad on my scooter. I like sussing out the gray, in other words.

I also was much more conscious on this reading of the one female character and her sex life. She sleeps with all three male main characters in turn. Happily, willingly, but still with a cloying submissive quality about her so-called liberated attitude toward sex.

Why did I like it? It’s a great story, people! It’s a racing, fast-paced comic-book-like tale where you want to see what happens at the end. Just skip the boring speeches. Really. Once you get her philosophy, it’s just the same ideas regurgitated in different words. In different, endless words.