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Took a bit for the story to warm up, and now it's easier to hear past the old-timey language. The king and the duke are my favorite characters so far. The advantage of reading it as an audiobook is that you don't have to get stuck on all the phonetic renderings of the dialects, but oh, wow, my lifetime count of hearing utterances of the n-word will have increased tenfold by time I'm finished 😳

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The story moved past Christmas around 60%, and is now only focused around one character, who I like how Franzen keeps you moving around liking and disliking them.

Set on December 23, 1971, it's a perfect Christmas read. Gives me some nostalgia for my own youth group days a couple decades later, and makes me feel a little wistful for when church didn't have anything to do with Republican politics. I like the characters, they're both complex and relatable; I feel like I've been hanging out with them.

lol 🤷‍♂️