Well, YMMV on that, it's been more than 5 years since I last looked into it, and I'm not going to anywhere in the near future.

I just thought it was a pretty cool "mystery adventure" book until it turned into religious fairytale cheese towards the last third.
No fuckin' Fauns, no fuckin' talkin' animals repressing their first laughter, no stupid grasshoppers, no Apples of Teh Life - could've turned out so differently, had it been written first :(

But yea, the creepy mad scientist guy, the arrogant, impulsive boy and the wiser cheeky girl who turns out to be right, that book's full of annoying tropes.