I'm not sure how I feel about this book. It was good, an interesting story, but somehow despite that, I had a hard time finishing it. The author goes off on a lot of tangents and seems to relish the occasional absurdly artistic sidenote. I'm sure that's what won it the Pulitzer prize, but I hated that stuff. It brought the momentum of the actual story to a screeching halt for some random bits that sounded cool, but were nearly irrelevant. Cut all that crap out, and I'm sure I would have liked it a lot better. Also, as a scientist, I wanted much more explicit description of what exactly was going on during sex scenes and examinations. Maybe the author just assumes you'll go to the internet and check it out yourself, but that seems like his research is incomplete or he never truly understood what he was writing about to begin with. Either way, it comes off weak and shy of hard details.
To sum it up: Story is good, pacing is slow, too many artsy forays thrown in
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