Yes. It was okay. It gets compared to Ocean's Eleven a lot so I was anticipating some very clever wrap-up or "a-ha!" moment. Instead, things just got increasingly chaotic. There was no way to have predicted the main villain's motives because you don't have any of that backstory until the very end.
After that I read a Feynman biography and then another physics book on why there is something rather than nothing. This simple fact has fascinated me for some time. Why the hell is there anything? How the hell is there anything? There should be nothing. The book didn't get philosophical at all, but rather explained how there is some precedent (quantum-wise) for something to be created from nothing. "Nothingness is unstable." Quantum fluctuations of gravity could even theoretically produce pockets of space and time. Couple that with an immediate state of rapid inflation, and this could explain our current universe. Of course the reality itself that allows something to spring from nothing, is not quite nothing...
Now I'm reading Malazan #7.
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