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Currently up to Chapter 10.

The audiobook I was listening to was also messed up. Waiting on another copy from the library at the moment.

Sigh. I have bad reading luck lately. I've finished the first Disc, and just discovered that the audiobook CD for Disc 2 from the library is totally nonfunctional.

I have finished Genesis and Exodus, and am now beginning Liviticus.

Just finished chapter 4.

On part 3, chapter 9.

Oof. Almost a third through this awful thing and am VERY close to adding it to the small 'will not finish' list. Will reserve explanation/further comment for when I (a) finish it or (b) make the decision not to.

I have only finished the preface but... ouch. I will try to give it a few chapters before I decide, but so far I am not sure if I will even be able to stomach that much (mostly due to how badly written it has been so far.)

*big sigh* I'm about half way through this book and loving it so far, but I really wish I hadn't so obviously figured out the big reveal so early on. I'm still enjoying the text but the suspension of disbelieve is shattered since at the back of my mind I keep just drumming my fingers for the revealed so that it can progress further without just hinting about it over and over... Hmm.

I'm on Chapter 8 and I've rarely been so torn about whether or not to continue reading a book because of how distasteful I find this. (Will explain further once I've finished OR decided not to continue.)

Oof. Because it's such a short book, I'll probably finish it... Yet so far it strikes me as trivial nonsense with a main character I'm starting to increasingly dislike. Still, I'm only at the beginning and am trying to give it a fair chance to improve and read for metaphors and larger meaning.

I'm still reading (and enjoying!) this but yesterday I found some charts that make following along much easier:
- http://www.stjohns-chs.org/english/jr... [near bottom]
- http://askmiddlearth.tumblr.com/post/...
- http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i...

I'm on track 20 (2min in) of 123 in the unabridged audiobook. So far, although I liked The Snows Of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber, this one just feels like drunken sounding drivel to me. I'm setting it aside to *maybe* pick up again another time... but then again, quite possibly not.