The Well at the World's End / William Morris

The Well at the World's End

by William Morris

fantasy

copyright 1896

read (in part) in February 2017

rated 5/10: readable but only if there's nothing else

I'm on a long sea voyage. Plenty of time for reading. Nowhere near enough time to read this monstrous tome.

It's slow moving. Verbose. Full of trivial detail.

You know how you watch a clock and it never seems to move? Well, I'm watching the percent read for this book -- and it never seems to move. Less than one percent. Will it never end?!

I manage to reach the end of "book one" of four. 2.4%. Why did the "books" break there? No idea, there's no logical break in the story.

Sure, there does seem to have been some minor progress towards a story. If this really is the story -- it's obvious, pointless and... boring. Could any hero be so oblivious to the obvious trap? Not in an interesting book.

I skip to the end of the book. Find that the hero has married a woman that I have not yet met. That he's about to save the day. Again, apparently.

Ho hum.

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