Blog Archives: October 2022

I tried. I first met this bloated fiasco of a book in hardcover close to twenty years ago. I started to read it, but soon realized that it was unreadable. I put it down and ended up getting rid of it (with most of my library) when I moved to Italy. View this book on Amazon Years later, after hearing it repeatedly called a masterpiece, I bought it on Kindle. I was not able to make much progress there, either, and put it down again. Deciding to give it another go, I recently bought a hardcover copy, along with a guide book. I’m sorry ...