I do totally agree. The characters are some of the most beautiful ever written, and I spent days and days in a hammock unable to tear myself away from it. But

I do totally agree. The characters are some of the most beautiful ever written, and I spent days and days in a hammock unable to tear myself away from it. But if I judged the book after just 30 pages, I probably would have said that it was dry and boring with too many characters, and too little happening.