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I am an advocate of ditching books you don't enjoy BUT

After the first ~300 pages, I began to understand how all the stories fit together and the book went from feeling like work to being a page turner I just had to devour.

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My sister gave me IJ for christmas a few years ago, and I basically started reading it out of guilt. I will read 100 pages, I said to myself, and if I don't like it by then, I will drop it. I really expected to hate the book and drop it, but after 100 pages, I was completely hooked.

After the first ~300 pages, you also finally start getting endnotes that explain the obscure terms used so far, like TP, EWD, etc.

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