My rating: 3 of 5 stars
oh, but there is SO MUCH of it! I don’t normally kvetch about long books, but this one just will not end. I am listening to it as an audio book, but also switching off to the hard copy, and both are making me wish someone took a sharp pencil to this novel. Yes, yes, well written! yes, yes, fascinating characters. But its stately procession through history is making me, yawn, very tired.