The reader was so irritating I almost returned the book. I stuck it out. There were lots of maybes, ifs, might haves, and deep background speculation that after a while it became humorous. I normally stay away from fiction. But, if read as the ramblings of one act play, then fine it’s doable. I didn’t believe any of it. The reader sounds as if he’s in high school. It took me quite a while to get past that. This is more like a lecture than a woven story. it trips over itself constantly and is frighteningly redundant. It’s a one hour book if the few facts were simply stated once.