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Keep Messiah in its historical context to understand it better. The first book was an unexpected hit. Frank didn't expect to write more, at least not in an accelerated timeline. Messiah was a rushed magazine piece when such magazines were still a relevant source of SciFi media. Later, it turned into the book. The second half of Messiah reads much better than the first IMO. The first half is like a weak second draft that was locked into cannon prematurely. It was my slowest reading section of the entire series including the concluding books by Brian.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I really hadn't thought about it before from this perspective. I'm enjoying the theme of the story, it's just like I said I find some of the individual conversations tough to get my head around