Definitely scared shitless by this massive novel, but I’m up to the challenge. 979 pages, plus 100 some-odd end notes. 4 hours in and I’m not to page one hundred. Could be the intense vocabulary (I look up one to two words per page). Don’t believe me? This site contains a few of the words people tend to look up during their voyage through this satirical postmodern post-american science fiction magnum opus.