Way, way, way too long. Barely any story in the 860 pages, it gets some drama around 85% in and holds on for a short while.

It's a shame because the first pages are gripping. Then it's just gripping you for an absolute age and it's just a drag.

Nice idea, stretched beyond a reasonable point. Could have easily been an impressive 300 page book.

But it's not. It's a slog.

6 Highlights

#1/6 - Location 3

THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason.

#2/6 - Location 51

There was no point in drawing up a last will and testament, because all of your possessions were going to be destroyed along with you, and there would be no survivors to receive them.

#3/6 - Location 88

The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.

#4/6 - Location 180

"To American viewers, I'm not fully American. To Chinese viewers, I'm a banana."

#5/6 - Location 364

Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable.

#6/6 - Location 643

Depending on how you felt about ubiquitous surveillance, the result had either been a new Dark Age and an incalculable loss to history, or a liberation from digital tyranny.