I enjoyed this for the ideas if nothing else. It felt a little pretentious and consciously-poised…of course the main character was the open-minded observer of other people’s short sightedness. This is not entertaining fiction so much as oblique moralizing and fantastical…theologizing. But it is entertaining in its own way.
I think Christian readers will find much to enjoy as they see their beliefs and feelings about heaven and hell congratulated and lightly challenged. For the non-Christians among us, it isn’t the most generally illuminating book spiritually, but I found it mildly entertaining and thought provoking.