A small book? In the edition on my shelves, the first and I think skinniest volume runs to 600 pages. Among modernist paperweights, I guess that is smaller than

A small book? In the edition on my shelves, the first and I think skinniest volume runs to 600 pages. Among modernist paperweights, I guess that is smaller than Ulysses, The Magic Mountain, or The Man Without Qualities. None of them, though, had another five volumes trailing behind. I can't imagine reading any of the volumes in two weeks, unless in conditions of solitary confinement. Nor can I imagine, as a teacher, asking 17-year-olds to read the book. [Edit: missed the part about only reading the first volume. Still, a couple of weeks is one hell of a pace.]