Kudos to you! Tried reading it several years ago and flung it down in despair at its veboseness ~quarter way through. My French friends laughed with & at me,

Kudos to you! Tried reading it several years ago and flung it down in despair at its veboseness ~quarter way through. My French friends laughed with & at me, saying I was lucky it wasn't mandatory reading like it was for them in high school... I hear glowing reviews very occasionally, but when I think of the sheer bulk of the book, I don't know if I can give it another chance.