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I actually abandoned the book. I've been trying to read it since early March or late February, and I'm barely past page 100. I just can't get interested. The first 50 or more pages seem to do little more than introduce character after character after character. By the time all the characters have been brought in, I can't remember who the first ones are, and at page 100, I still can't figure out if there's plot. I considered the possibility that the book is more of a collection of vignettes than an actual story with a plot, but I can't figure out the point of any of the individual little chapters either so (sigh), I'm giving up -- something I don't do often, by the way. I loved A Thousand Acres , by Smiley, by the way, but I just can't seem to bring myself to open this one back up.