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P. Kirby is on page 468 of 750

Four whole pages read! The "action" consisting of a lugubrious conversation between Shadow and his "dead wife" where dead wife says, "I came all the way from Texas to say 'Hi." And now that I've done that, it's back to Texas." And Shadow says, "Uh-okay."

Riveting. NOT!

— Mar 31, 2019 02:04PM

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P. Kirby is on page 632 of 750

I decided that Shadow's ordeal on the tree is a metaphor for reading this book: unnecessarily long, punctuated by pretty hallucinations, but entirely pointless.

— Apr 04, 2019 11:54AM

P. Kirby is on page 612 of 750

"Not only are there not happy endings," she told him. "There aren't even any endings."

— Apr 04, 2019 11:35AM

P. Kirby is on page 601 of 750

After that he had more or less stopped reading. You could not trust fiction. What good were books, if they couldn't protect you from something like that?

— Apr 04, 2019 11:25AM

P. Kirby is on page 522 of 750

Whew! Finally made it to over 500 pages. Only...220 to go. *Glurk!*

— Apr 02, 2019 12:05PM

P. Kirby is on page 498 of 750

I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive

Amen.

— Apr 02, 2019 11:40AM

P. Kirby is on page 483 of 750

"Laura."
"Laura. Okay. Well, I hope you don't mind dealing with weirdos. Because they come out at night."
"I'm sure they do. I can cope."

Dead Wife's working the dead shift. *Snort.* Twenty more pages! At this rate, I might finish this doorstop by fall.

— Apr 01, 2019 01:15PM

P. Kirby is on page 465 of 750

In the past 20 pages of so, Shadow has gone for long walks, taken the occasional road trip with Wednesday to meet various peculiar god-spirit persons (meetings happening off-screen), taken more walks, and sniffed the bright, cold winter air. This book is the most over-written thing, like...EVER! ZZZZzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZZZZZZZz..zZZzzzz

— Mar 30, 2019 12:17PM

P. Kirby is on page 445 of 750

Lookie! I've read two whole pages in two days. Somebody get me a cookie. Stat!

— Mar 24, 2019 05:26PM

P. Kirby is on page 443 of 750

Slowest...book...ever.

— Mar 22, 2019 11:49AM

P. Kirby is on page 407 of 750

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies.

— Mar 22, 2019 11:48AM