While there are no issues or errors with the translation and the writing, it commits the ultimate sin...it's boring. I love reflective fiction but none of the characters in this book interested me. Nor did the things they went about doing in overly produced ways.

I don't want to belabor my point so I'll leave it at this. It wasn't bad, it doesn't deserve a 1. It wasn't good or engaging, I didn't care what happened to anyone in this book. Disappointing because the premise seemed like a real winner.

EDIT: For my own edification later, I DNF'd this book somewhere around the middle. Two-stars felt too generous for something I couldn't even finish reading.