I'm still ploughing through Passage to India - first time a book that length has taken this long

It has it's moments - both in terms of character interest and historical interest, but for a lot of the time I'm torn between wanting to slap some sense into half the characters, or go back in time and ask the author to stop labouring over the some of the points being made - I got it the first time, and the second, and the sixth.
I'm interspersing that with reading through a stack of magazines.