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Originally Posted by Synamon
I started this, but I'm not sure how far I'll get before I give up. It's not as painfully detailed as Dickens, but these older classics move way too slowly for me. I tried The Warden as an audiobook last year and didn't get far. 
I've put it on my tablet so I can read it at night before bed, it's certain to put me to sleep. |
Oops, forgot to get back to this thread. I did manage to read this in about a week, although I do admit to skimming some of the boring bits (for me that was the hunting minutia and the Senator's sections at the end). The female characters had meat and were less predictable than I expected, that was a nice surprise. All in all, a worthwhile read.
I'll join the Trollope trumps Dickens club. I had to abandon the last Dickens I tried after skimming wasn't enough to get me through it. I skimmed the last Austen prodigiously as well.
I fail at heavily detailed classics.