The Reality Dysfunction - Peter Hamilton
This is the first book in a trilogy - which is basically one simple but forced, often pointless, and full of holes, plotline padded out by spending hundreds of pages at a time on completely irrelevant characters - which remain pretty two-dimensional, and even contradictory, regardless. I nearly threw the book down in disgust at one point, but made myself continue on condition of skip-reading most of the rest. I was interested in a couple of elements - but there's no way I'm going to subject myself to thousands more pages of redundancy just to follow them. I'm sure if you stripped the trilogy down to one book it could be more interesting. But only after the plot is properly fixed. Which is a shame, because when Hamilton writes well, he properly enages. But these are sparse moments in a pointlessly overlong work.
