While I get the pulp fiction end of the other reviewers, I couldn't even finish this book.  I made it thorugh 25% of the book and was so completely bored that I couldn't even motivate myself to pick it back up.  There are sooooo many characters in the first part of the story, and the author fails to get involved with each of them before moving on to the next.  I can see how the story has some potential, but after the first quarter of the book, the story has still gone nowhere and I refuse to continue to read to figure out where it's going.  Further, it seems as though the author had several great "thoughts" about what should be in the book, but failed to organize those thoughts.  It almost seems like a very rought draft of several different potential story ideas.  Very scatter brained and boring!