>>715127167
I don't care what the faggots say, Acts 1 through 3 were a chore and were way way way better on a re-read because the author jerks himself off with a ridiculous amount of callbacks making every irrelevant pixel in every page and every irrelevant word in every dialogue retroactively super fucking important. The Act 3 intermission is also just slapstick boringness for babies that I skip on re-reads now even though it is super relevant as well. It also is just a weird as fuck non-traditional and non-traditionally told story that doesn't really come together until Act 4, but the payoff is worth it. It's just hard to recommend to anyone because it's heaps of fucking reading and interpreting nerd culture to get the humor to get to that point. Then of course it's like, the last half of the last act slowly went out with a whimper with poor resolutions to plot lines and character arcs so that makes it even harder to recommend. Extended universe stuff ranges wildly from decent to absolutely awful, I think you're best off ignoring it especially because the best of the sequel shit (Hiveswap) has no end in sight.