I think it’s incredible; a unique meditation on existence, love, reality and perception; to name a few. I think you have to have a relationship you really want to develop with the character from The Passenger. If you don’t, you’re likely to struggle. The book doesn’t compromise either in terms of the conversational devices and themes it uses but it would have been impossible to write the character and get into the areas it ventures if he’d dumbed down. I cried instantly at the end.