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Now entering the dreaded second third, the tough part of most epic novels: the tricks and tics are no longer surprising, but the end is not in sight. This is The Slog. See also: Bleak House, War & Peace. Exception: Middlemarch, which somehow - and not necessarily advisedly - puts The Slog at the beginning. (Worst-case: The Slog at the end. That means the novel is bad.)