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The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
3.0

At times I really enjoyed this book, but overall I found it too slow for my taste. There is some really, beautiful writing and care put in to this novel, but I really felt that most of the novel was written as words for the sake of writing words, or to meet a quota.

I think that it's worth trying, but make sure you leave yourself enough time. It's more of a lazy, summertime novel.