Read any good books lately?????

[glatt]

I really enjoy Stephenson. I'm also reading the trilogy. But I'm stuck about halfway through the last of the three books. I hit a dull spot, and am having trouble getting started again. In my opinion, Stephenson spends far too much time on tracing the lineage of royal families, and he introduces far too many characters. After the first book, I started keeping notes with index cards on the different characters. I wrote small, and filled the front and back of two index cards for the second novel. There must have been 50 characters in the second book.

I think his novels could be just as good even if he limited the number of characters to oh, lets say, 15 per book.