Title: Like wading through quicksand
Product review: This book was too much of an effort to finish. Every page was painful. Characters who appear, disappear and reappear 100 pages later and you don't remember who they are. Too many plots and subplots. I could only read a few pages at a time before I became physically exhausted. There were long rambling sections which were excerpts from the dictionary he was writing. These entries did not advance the plot or characters and I just didn't care. The characters were so one dimensional, that you just fail to connect with any of them. I made it 3/4 of the way through and finally just raised the white flag.Other reviews here reference how difficult the book is to read yet give it 4 or 5 stars. If this is not a criteria to you, why even mention it? It certainly is to me. It reminded me of textbooks I had in school for subjects I didn't want to take. The difference is I was allowed to put this book down. So I did.
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