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They just don't write books like this anymore.

And I'm glad.

This is more like literary archaeology than reading.

Actually reading the 1960 paperback edition, First Printing. So dated. (the writing and the crumbling, orange-y book itself).

Very quirky. Shades of Moby Dick (obvi, and intentionally) but very light ones.

Missed book club but I'll finish it anyway.

Sometimes a pithy tagline is enough to give a book a try.

Dense; heavy - will read this in batches over a long time.

Magical realism, Gogol, Mieville, general crap, hard to sort it out.

(for book club July 2026)

It.
never.
ends.

Part reading part dramatized audiobook (sfx and full cast).

Wonderful writing / translation. I like having to stop every now and then to look up a word - mostly Russian - but some English. This translator is a wizard at the English language.

I feel I'm going to love or hate this book, but nothing in between. Let's see... Audiobook really helping.

Slow
As
Ice

Switching to audiobook, no way to get through this much copy. It's 52 hours BTW.

It is dry in audiobook format, but still fun. Lots of vignettes. So many names.

Super-dense, will be a slow read. Thanks for character list and glossary.

Last...few...pages...

These names are hard to follow... so many characters...

Good ol' Brandon - more of the same. But in a good way. I now see that huge chunks of Stormlight Archive are remixes of this series. But it was all supposed to fit together so no big surprise (or blame) there.