Cedricsmom’s Reviews > An American Tragedy > Status Update

Closing in on the end at last. I've learned a great deal from the experience and I look forward to sharing it with you.

In my desperation to finish this brick, I'm using all the tricks and tips I can devise. I see the GR page count is 40 pages more than the actual text of the book, so I am adding 40 pages to my "Currently on" page count. A mind game, I know. But this book is endless. This guy's writing style is even wordier than Wilkie Collins, another writer who didn't know when to just end the damn sentence and move on.

I'm going to start skimming because I can't stand it anymore. At the 650 page mark there begins to be more dialogue and less wall to wall narrative. Bring it on. Nothing but my own personal tenacity has kept me from giving up this book. In future, if a book was serialized, or it's over 600 pages and it isn't by Donna Tartt I'm listening to the audio or better yet watching the movie on PBS. I am tortured.