The Planning is unfortunately worse. The author said in a recent press interview that he hated to tell stories, and he felt much more at ease in large detailed descriptions. It's obviously a shame when we still want to write novels. The romantic frame, which is struggling to follow the middle of wikipedia pages, do not start that bad, but then turns to Z series, with a poor history sect came from the distant past (there a kind of curveball, or self-irony, one of the characters is a writer missed some esoteric studies). The pseudo-theory about man and his territory which culminates at the end of the story is simply indigestible, illegible, incomprehensible. You end up skipping whole pages of this verbiage to go after, where everything ends in a hurry.
You can go your way.