If you want a real laugh, look up other blogs that discuss PON. I stumbled across one trying to find how to spell an name for one of my posts here and it's hilarious. So many people dismissing the books over the sex and violence and I'm like, "well, now I know why so much fantasy fiction is written - a wide audience for kids riding dragons and heroes just barely pulling out the win in the end". Appears the appetite for that equation remains strong. A few of the fools were pissed that they found PON "hero" Kellhus as someone they couldn't "root for" ... well, uh, yeah, you're complaining about one of the genius parts of the writing - Bakker has negotiated the 4th wall in no way any other author has done before - reaching into us via our reading as opposed to the typical 4th wall crashing through as explicit talking to the reader - challenging ourselves to have a personal connection not driven by the writer - maybe the most under bearing work I've read, it is completely left up to us to judge and understand on our own terms and we're not wrong regardless of our conclusions. The beauty of that astounds me.
Oh, whatever ...