If you read a very long book, people will take note and then they will comment. This is inevitable. I tell you this so that you are forewarned if you should decide to attempt RoTP (but seriously, there are so many reason to not make this attempt, so. . .).
For example, my latest awkward encounter with a random gym member:
RGM: Remembrance of Things Past. Huh. That looks really long.
Me: This is actually one of three volumes.
RGM: Huh. You're at page 900?
Me: Yeah, of this volume. The whole book is 3,500 pages. I'm about 2,000 into it.
RGM: Is it any good?
Me: It's okay.
RGM: Sh**, girl. For something that long it better be more than okay. I guess you're sort of committed now, though.
This probably would have been less awkward if I had then explained the project to him. I did not.
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