I don't believe for one second any citizen believes this is a good use of time or resource. Absolutely ridiculous.

Based on how he behaves in public, private must be absolutely wild.

He reminds me of the newspaper vendor in watchmen. His opinion flim flaming depending on what is on the front page that morning. I'm not convinced he's not basically playing a character at this point.

One of the hardest things I've ever had to learn as a reader is when to abandon a book. But you must. You won't read all the books you want to because there is not enough time. Life's too short to be struggling through a book you aren't enjoying.

Second this, Metamorphosis is a good quick read and was also my introduction to Kafka.

I wish more people would adopt this approach.

this is incredibly helpful! thank you.

it is! I am only about 20 or so pages in so far but I am feeling a bit lost. It just seems completely disjointed from what I have read so far. For a few pages I was wondering if I had somehow got the books out of order.

I am finally working my way through Sandman, i'm on book 6 now. I do find myself enjoying this one a little less than the others.