Eh. It wasn't horrible, but I didn't connect with anything in this book and it was pretty dry. Like I really wanted to, but there was a huge distance between the main character and the reader. He's telling his story almost from afar, with (what feels like) a great deal of time from the events taking place. It was difficult to form any kind of attachment to him, which was what I wanted.

A lot of this book was action scenes, which to be honest, just bore me. It doesn't matter what the action is, I don't connect well with that type of writing and never have. I found myself having to go back and reread constantly because I was only skimming the page instead of paying close attention.

There were a few really great moments, though. I really loved the way it ended, both with the aliens and with the main character's life. The alien bit there was cool and his personal life for the last couple of pages was the only thing in this book that touched me emotionally. I wish more of it had been like that, but I did quite enjoy those bits.

I think if you're reading this from a historical scifi perspective (what it meant at the time and what it did for the genre, etc), you'll probably enjoy it a whole lot more. I understand it was very important and I can totally get people who love it for that. But just not for me.

I thought about knocking this up to 3 stars, but I think I'd only be doing that because it's a classic and "important." It can be important and still not a book that I enjoyed very much. It just didn't do anything for me.