is it crunchy? do kittens like it?

[ironymaiden]

i dunno. i went home from work today feeling decidedly crappy and slept solid from 3pm until 8pm. need to stay awake now to sleep through the night and feeling very sad about missing another rehearsal.
i'm about halfway through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and i'm plodding on with the grim determination that i applied to The Witching Hour - i can see the edges of something great here, and i'm sure that if i read on i'll be rewarded. right? right?*
meanwhile, i've got a list of other thick novels i'd like to read. i'm tempted to ditch it for other things, but i've put in the time now and i know that if i stop i won't remember enough to pick it up again without starting over.

so, peanut gallery...
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*The Witching Hour never paid off. i can't believe i actually tried reading the sequels in hopes of the story i wanted appearing. those are hours of my life i'll never get back.

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[buhrger]

i've not yet read it, but it's been recommended to me by two people, both of whom seem to have fairly reliable taste in books.

as to whether kittens like it, i think the questions then needs to be "is it shiny? is it jangly?"

[and by the way, it's precisely in cases of i'm sure that if i read on i'll be rewarded. right? right? that i tend to flip to points later in the book and read snippets. it means i'm Evile, i realize, but there it is.]

[buhrger]

and with reference to your list of other thick novels, and in contrast to llynecat, i'd take iron council over quicksilver - i enjoyed both, but did a lot less flipping forward with IC (and so, in spite of knowing that [spoiler deleted] does something [spoiler deleted] to [spoiler deleted] somewhere towards the [spoiler deleted] of the book, was nonetheless surprised when and how it actually happened.)

as to GRRM, i'm following mort_q's lead on this and waiting for the series to be finished before i start it.

[ironymaiden]

i've already tried flipping to points later and it's more of same. i'm at 491 out of 896 now, so i'm considering powering through it in order to say yes, i read it all and...

[buhrger]

i've also actually read books from both ends towards the middle - read first chapter, read last chapter, read second chapter, read penultimate chapter, read third chapter, read antepenultimate chapter, and so on.