Last and first men by Olaf Stapledon. 😕😕😔 This book was torture. It was hard to read and painful. I suffered. The introduction gave me much hope though. The main themes sounded super interesting. Is there any SF reader who has not wondered or speculated about the future of human kind, not in a few hundred years but millions of years? 

Although a human from the future narrated the story, it felt more like a 20th-century machine. Think robot speech. This book has no characters or plot. Instead, it recounts a fictional historical account that includes biological and psychological changes in humans for millions of years. Some events are interesting, but I found most, especially in the first third of the book, utterly boring. I had to read the physical book accompanied by an audio book to be able to finish. I didn't enjoy the experience, but I liked the ending. It is a kind of philosophical reflection on our existence and purpose, I guess. 

 I won't say Last and First men was worth reading just for the last 2 pages, but I think of those pages as a reward for my sacrifice.