I had to put down a book today because I couldn’t maintain my suspension of disbelief.  It’s a pity, because I was really enjoying it.  In fact, I intend to pick it up again, because the author has some very original ideas and a solid style.

However, the villains of the story are a group of people who work for an EVIL CORPORATION, and I just don’t buy them.  The author was slathering on the anti-capitalistic polemic with a trowel, and it just got too thick to wade through any more.  I mean just in case we couldn’t pick up on the fact that they were bad guys because they are trying to bring Lovecraftian Elder Gods back to Earth to destroy everything and they experiment on unwilling human subjects, the author helpfully reminds us that they work for an EVIL CORPORATION that is GREEDY and WANTS TO MAKE…