It's time to celebrate! I finished Dance to the Music of Time. That's a very, very long book. The second longest on the list, in fact, clocking in at some 2944 pages. Google helpfully told me that the average book has ~250-300 words per page. Low-balling, that means I read about 736,000 words. Yowza. What strikes me as grossly unfair is that this tome is really 12 novels, or at the very least four (12 novellas clumped together in four novels). But does the list count it that way? Oh, no. Of course not. It counts it as just one.
So, how was it? Long, that's really the first word that comes to mind. Fortunately, it is highly readable and quite enjoyable. I wouldn't recommend binge reading it like I did, but I would recommend reading it, maybe slowly as you would a series of four novels and not as one novel that you just have to get through so your stats don't suffer anymore, dammit. If I have one critique, it's the absence of any really interesting female characters (yes, there is Pamela and yes, she is fun in a Carmen Sternwood way, but it take her forever to appear). However, if I were to make that a disqualifier I wouldn't read the majority of these books, so.....
Unlike In Search of Lost Time, I don't feel a strong need for a reward here (I'd link to my pieces on that tome, but I'm waaaaaay too lazy for that kind of digging), perhaps because it was a fun one. Though, I may be in Georgetown soon and I am a sucker for Baked and Wired cupcakes, and I say this as someone who isn't really a fan of cake. I want to marry these cupcakes and have their babies.
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