Please explain.

Will somebody please tell me what was supposed to be so great about The Court of the Air? I finished it, because I was determined to (and because I paid I-forget-how-many dollars for the hardback), but ugh. It had some good bits in it, here and there, but mostly it was a mess. I totally don't get it.


In other questions, I came in for the end of McCain's speech, and there was a lot of screaming and there certainly are a lot of balloons, but it sounded like a whole bunch of platitudes strung together. Did I miss anything more interesting? (Despite the screaming, the placard-wavers didn't even seem that enthusiastic, to tell you the truth.)