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Originally Posted by HarryT
Provided you can keep track of who's who amongst the literally hundreds of characters, many of whom have very similar names. My printed edition of it comes with a handy bookmark which has all the "family trees" printed on it!
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I wish I had that! After a while, I stopped reading and wrote down the characters names and their roles in the story, just to be able to keep reading the book. I loved it though.
Very few books bored me enough to make me quit reading: Proust's À l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs lost me after...something like fifteen pages, and Stendhal's The Red and the Black has put me to sleep a few days in a row before I gave up. Although I was pretty young when I tried them both, maybe I could give it another go now...