Finally got around to reading this. So many books, so little time...I wonder if it's a bad thing to be looking forward to your retirement when you're 25?

The book wasn't entirely what I expected. There was less wordplay for wordplay's sake and much more focus on plot than I've come to expect from Chabon. I'm still not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly different. Overall, the book is good, but it's not of the "have to keep reading this no matter what" type of book. I'm on a holiday so I was planning to read it in a single day, but I kept taking any excuse I could invent to stop reading it after a while, so it took 4 days. I don't know if there's such a thing as a great book that has to be read slowly, but I can't give more than four stars to a book that loses to such boring activities as sleeping in the priority game.