I’m on a Clavell binge. Read Shogun and King Rat as a kid, loved them. Decided to do the whole saga as an adult. Re-read Shogun now, even better than I remember. Then I read Tai Pan, amazing.
Then I started Gai Jin, and I’m bored out of my mind. I’m at page 200. I get that’s too far in for a 1600 page book, but I’m not drawn in *at all.* I can’t keep track of all the characters that keep dipping in and out, half the pages are inner monologues, and I don’t really care about anything that’s going on. The one remotely interesting storyline has been Angelique’s with her >!rape !<and I’m wondering how that’ll play out. But other than that, I am completely uninvolved and find myself just picking up the book less and less.
Does it get better or do I just DNF and move on to Noble House?
by dilqncho