雖然衹讀了一些片段，但對這本小說投不信任票。原因很直接:

According to reviews by its readers, especially appreciating readers, it is a very ambitious novel which is supposed to cover a broad spectrum of human experiences with profound insights in many branches of human disciplines. But neither those passages I read nor its author's comments outside the novel showed anything close to this quality.  In contrast, they showed a great deal of limitations, misconceptions and immaturity.

Supposedly Li committed a great amount of time and energy in completing this work, so I don't like to discredit his talents and efforts, but if he plans to write future works, I am thinking honest comments like mine may be useful for those works to come.

但立和姚順似乎有點像，都是聽不進意见的，而且都很片面地崇洋。片面就不可能深刻。不深刻不可能有深刻的作品。

My two cents.