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I'm glad I listened to this as an audio book*, as it seems like it would have been a long slog to read 473 pages of. As it was, I bumped up the audio to double speed so I'd have to concentrate and actually listen - on regular speed my mind kept wandering and I'd miss things.
That isn't to say the story wasn't interesting. It was one of those books, though, where there were interesting nuggets amid long stretches of background information and character description. (SO MUCH character description, yet I couldn't keep people straight, anyway, because there were so many of them.)
*The audio reader did have his drawbacks. Most noticeably he adopted terrible accents when reading dialog. His "southern" (US) accent and German accents were particularly awful.
That isn't to say the story wasn't interesting. It was one of those books, though, where there were interesting nuggets amid long stretches of background information and character description. (SO MUCH character description, yet I couldn't keep people straight, anyway, because there were so many of them.)
*The audio reader did have his drawbacks. Most noticeably he adopted terrible accents when reading dialog. His "southern" (US) accent and German accents were particularly awful.