I cannot help but feel very ambivalent on this book. On the one hand it's an interesting meditation on humanity's origins, its relation to the environment and technology, the petty rules of how humans socialize and form communities, the ominous unseen hands of government and corporate power working their ill will on us, among many other topics. On the other, more than its first third is structured terribly jumping in chronology from one brief chapter to another with no real purpose only to settle in to a rather boring middle slump before finally finding some drive towards the end. We are also trapped to see this whole narrative from the perspective of one of the most bitterly cynical, unpleasant protagonists I've ever read whose hateful internal monologue quickly becomes grating. My thoughts on the book are all a bit jumbled, which is fitting giving the almost stream of consciousness prose in the endless parade of little vignettes that make up the narrative. Many elements feel underdeveloped but there are enough hints of interesting ideas that I stayed at least engaged.