Not going to be a long post, but I do have a curiosity about this book, because I purchased it when it was first available in the US and have absolutely hated it. I still haven't finished it. I read probably 150 pages in one sitting, turning each page with the expectation that something good was going to happen, that it had to happen based on the slobbering reviews the book had received -- and yet was never fulfilled. I'm actually about 20 pages from the end, though I haven't picked it up in a month or so as I've been concentrating on actual literature.

That's too much.

What I mean to say is: was anyone else just a bit disappointed, or am I just off the mark here? I don't find the writing to be superlative, but that's fine, as I've often encountered so-so writing which is more than compensated for by good story telling, a deft unraveling of ideas or emotion, or a novel concept. I just didn't see that here, and I as I continuously eye my bookshelf I wonder: am I wrong, or is it?