Title: A Very Big Book
Product review: This book is for people who don't mind taking awhile to get INTO it, and I'm not one of those. I've tried to read this book three separate times -- the first because of wonderful reviews and the second two times after I'd read The Unburied by the same author and loved it (you can SMELL the dankness of the old buildings he talks about and feel the splinters in your feet from the sagging, leaning stairways in those buildings). I thought if Palliser could write one book that was so very good, I needed to just get into the big one and it would be very good, as well. Well, I never found that out. Never got further than probably page 100 and that was only by having skipped several pages of exposition. So my recommendation? If you like loooooooooooooong books, this may be your cup of tea, but if not, skip it, read The Unburied and maybe whatever new Palliser has in store.
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