I abandoned this book more than once during my teens and only to come back much later to read it. The violence through out the book never affects any of the characters and they seem to be blase about it. After a point its not possible to just loathe these folks and move on from this book. 
 Its the narration style and the world that keeps the story going forward and is definitely the only thing I looked forward to. 
 I indeed skipped few paragraphs here and there so as to avoid abandoning the novel yet again.