More than 700 pages into this book, and I'm still not interested. So many disparate scenes and characters and the "plot" barely moves forward. Even the characters I could keep track of were not interesting to me. All the explicit sex scenes got pretty old fast, as well. I also found it ridiculous that it's supposed to be set a couple millenia in the future, but everyone on every planet still uses slang like "bollocks" and "dickhead", not to mention airplanes by McBoeing. They've invented sentient life-form planets and starships that communicate telepathically, but they still cook their food in microwaves. All in all, a too-long story with too many characters and requires far too much suspension of disbelief to get absolutely nowhere.