It’s a brilliant book but as a typical American reader I found I needed a cheat sheet for characters. I do the same for Russian novels (when I first read C&P, I thought there were three times the number of characters that actually existed because of Russian naming conventions).
I still chew over one of the great revelations in the book: that any kind of contact with an extraterrestrial civilization would be disastrous for humankind. Good, bad, or indifferent, such contact would almost destroy us.
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