i just finished book 1 and am eagerly moving on with the story. it seems to me that dust = reason… does anyone share this reading of the story?

update: so now i’m done with all three. there were some great ideas in this series – particularly the concept of daemons, and the literal and metaphoric celebration of free will and critical thought. the first two books flowed along quite nicely, but then the third was slow-moving and complicated, and introduced lots of new characters and concepts that weren’t well-developed at all. what a shame how it petered out, but i’ll still say that’s it’s worth a read.