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Normally, I feel a compulsion to finish a book once I have begun reading it. I suppose I'm mildly obsessive/compulsive in that (and other things). If it's truly bad, I don't have any problem putting it down, and I find myself doing that with fiction more and more these days. However, if it's just boring, I'll put it down for a few days, and then pick it back up wondering if I was just in a bad mood previously. That was kind of the experience I had with this book. In the end, I read the last two-thirds of the book in about an hour, skimming through page after page of interminably stultifying narrative just to et to the next (somewhat) exciting event in the story line. There weren't many of them. In the end , I just wanted to see how it turned out, and even that wasn't really worth the effort. Too bad.