A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought) Reviews

I don't know what all the praise for this novel is for, and it's a Hugo Award Winner too. After 100 pages in I wanted to quit it because I felt lost at times and I didn't even know the characters either. They had no soul and I didn't even like their names. Steel? Woodcarver? Scarbutt? Come on! This book is for adults but these characters sound like they're out of Harry Potter or something. I didn't like the style of writing and at times it seemed the author was talking to himself in 3rd person while writing this novel. Sounds confusing but believe me, I had to read it twice to make sure I wasn't crazy. There were some good things about this story but they were few and far between. I had to quit after 400+ pages. I found it reads like one of those Ace Double novels from the 1960's, which were hardly ever good. I can see people liking this novel if they're fans of the Golden Age of sci-fi but I've read better from that era and far better from my era. I will not be reading the sequal.