I was given this as a must read by my Mother, normally a fairly trust worthy source of literary recommedations - but I am afraid for me this is a book that failed to launch. Mum admitted in discussion after a told her I had abandoned it that she had read it twice before she got it, but with a bookshelf overflowing with unread tomes I feel live might be too short for a second attempt.
On reflection I think I failed to engage with this for many of the same reasons why I failed with Lord of the Rings. Both have diversions, Lord of the Rings its songs and Mr Vogel rambling accounts of events in parallel to the narrative from characters real and imagined. Both are tales of journeys yet both have the narrative pace to be overtaken by an elderly snail.
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