Edit: I got a lovely brother who encouraged me to finish this book. Well, it was more of a "read this, I like it, so you need to like it, too. I know better" thing. And he was right, it got better after all. It still has no real plot, but the characters make up for it. I think that's the same for everyone who also loves firefly. There is no way to not like this crew. Some of the ideas were also real fun. And it's totally easy to read, you just flow over the pages. It's a feel good book, with some philosophical mark.

Not for me, dnf @ 33%
basically no plot and I felt i was reading about about Work or something, because all this non-violent communication kind of freaked me out. If I want to read a book about gender, race and culture i go and get myself a scientific book about it, which gives me best practice examples for the real world that i can incorporate into my work, not a scifi utopia novel. Political correctness doesn't make a good book, if it is not shown how people overcome conflicts and difficulties.
But if you are totally into this political correctness thing, and you have read like the 100 Book were it's done wrong, you might like The long way to a small angry planet.