it took me a really really long time to read this, i'm talking like six months - but in the end it was worth it. i think it's probably because it's quite a difficult reading style, for me anyway, and i'd find myself getting distracted and having to read the whole page over again. it's not that it wasn't interesting, just that i would get confused about which character was doing what; it just felt like lots of names and it wasn't until the end that i'd worked out which characters were significant, and how they all linked together.
After reading the whole thing i decided that it was actually a pretty good book. i started reading it because i felt like it was something i should have read, and i am glad that i did, but i think that for people who enjoy something that's really easy and fun to read it's probably not the best book. but in a few years i'll read it through again, hopefully a little quicker this time as i'll already know all the characters and so it'll make a lot more sense. that's probably the key issue i had with this book; until half way through i couldn't understand the significance of any thing. but i love the style it was written in - the voice - if that makes any sense. it made me want to write about emotionless men, which is an unusual sort of style for me, but i really enjoyed it.
Okay so overall yes, it's a good book, but probably not great for everyone. and you have to accept that it wont make sense the first time through. or maybe i'm just super dumb and everyone else that read it found it easy. i don't know...
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