People are stupid and unquestioning beings who subscribe to deadly and absurd ideas. Everyone is infected by this except us, dear readers, who alone recognize the truth. At a time when many people have legitimate fears and concerns about the future, Quinn offers the kind of arrogant, self-righteous zealotry that false prophets and demagogues have peddled throughout history. If Quinn's book had been well written, I might have been less attuned to these conceptual problems. Successful novels use language to pull us into their worlds, to make us suspend disbelief and surrender to the writer's vision.
Good writing can make the ridiculous sublime.
Quinn's prose is so shoddy that I instead had to suspend my belief that an editor had read his manuscript. Emotionally, she was an impenetrable conundrum.