Originally Posted by
snotface
I got through the first one and a half volumes and then - unusually for me - abandoned it (usually I feel obliged to finish whatever I'm reading, even if I'm not particularly enjoying it, as if medals are awarded for literary persistence). The characters just never became real to me and, fatally, I couldn't care what happened to them. And then so many volumes stretched ahead, still to be read... No doubt the fault was mine - plenty of people share your love of the series.