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I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt this way. I'm assuming that you finished the book. I couldn't get through it at all when it kept on rambling on about the lineage and crap. I told Adgy I wanted to throw his copy at the wall. I had a friend that recently finished it too and she said that she couldn't put it down. That still shocks me.
I did finish the book and Adgy almost has me interested enough to try the second. We'll see. There are a lot of great books coming out this fall. Neal Stephenson's "Reamde" will occupy a big chunk of time at more than 1000 pages.