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Interesting, but slow. Or rather, I'm reading it slowly and savouring it. Quite humorous to see a Joshua Cohen quote on the front only to find him ('him') in the book! The narrator has met a man named Cohen. Might be a coincidence--but no!--because he is specifically described as wearing round, silver-rimmed glasses. Josh it is. Surely.

I've had enough of Louis. I feel like this is going to be more of the same. But I promised myself (and a colleague) that I'd read all his books before we discussed him in full. So here we go: novel 4 of 4.

After an interesting beginning I have lost nearly all interest in this. I have not picked it up for a few days, so perhaps that's why. So far, nothing has drawn me in or swept me up.

I am savouring this, really, but I am also amazed that it was (and is!) a children's novel. It is so long! At over 600 pages it does feel akin to something like Lord of the Rings, but with rabbits instead of hobbits. I find it sad to consider that most children these days would be bored within minutes of this long tale, particularly with all of Adams's lavish nature descriptions.

Over the coming weeks I'm going to read a number of ancient Greek works, but rather than read randomly as I have before, I am going to try and read in 'order', or as close as I can manage it. I studied Homer for a year, so consider him 'finished' and then I moved to Sappho and Aeschylus... But Hesiod comes before both of them. Luckily, he doesn't take long. (Oh and Aesop should be thrown in too, if I'm backtracking.)