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I'm struggling!! I'm really enjoying the bits set in the "present". But they're short and sparse compared to accounts of the past, which I end up skipping huge chunks of as the writing does not work with the tone of what is being said.

I am NOT enjoying this. Sure, it is well written. But it reads like a book that loves to read itself. It is unengaging, and the story and potential enjoyment of the novel seem to have been put to the side in an effort to write the next big masterpiece. It is pretentious and tries too hard. Still waiting to have my mind changed.