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Like ten pages left and here I am at work. Can I just read at my desk? GAH.

HOME STRETCH

This book is as good as they say it is.

Almost through the rough patch here. Hopefully.

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.)