This was great! It didn't meet my five star expectations, though it is admittedly hard to live up to all the hype that this one has received. I appreciated the satiric bits and the characterizations and there were some thought provoking elements. But parts of it were darker and more grim than I was expecting. A lot of terrible things happen! I also don't get the reviews calling this funny - there are some ironic bits, but it's not like "laugh out loud funny." I also don't feel great about the way the female characters were treated in this by the author, but that's neither here nor there.

Quite liked this. I would call it a decontextualization of the original - it shears the original of both its place in set time and its authors intent - and reimagines it with modern characters and cultural understanding. For the most part, except the dream sequences with philosophers, which were too much, it succeeds in its effort.