time or to tell someone else’s story or explain something or whatever, you need to make the reader see why it’s important and make the reader willing to go there. instead i thought, okay, when are we getting back to the main story?! i’m bored, and i don’t get what’s going on here! starting on page five, which is actually the third page of the book, we get a two-page description of a bizarre science book the main character is reading, and it’s unclear why that description is there. it turns out that the book is important to thomas’s story, but there’s no way to know that at the time, 