me too, im more into fantisy and i liked si-fi, just not as much, im more of a vampire guy that a robots kinda guy, but um...... like you said, the only reason it was easier to read was cuz every other chhapter was about parasites lol, i liked this because it gave him a chance to tell us important information without having to sprinkel it in in the main story line, the perasite chapters helped explain what was going on also. but um the last days is like a full length book, i was disapointed