# book of the new sun: slow start? *The Usenet list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 18 Jan 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Max *18 Jan 2005, 23:20* so i've finally started on this series, and everything i've read about it suggests that it'd be right up my alley. i'm about 100 pages into the first book and i'm finding it pretty tedious so far. does it pick up or is this it? --- ### Steve Simmons *19 Jan 2005, 01:15 · in reply to Max* Max wrote on 01/18/05 at 23:20: > so i've finally started on this series, and everything i've read about > it suggests that it'd be right up my alley. i'm about 100 pages into the > first book and i'm finding it pretty tedious so far. does it pick up or > is this it? It will pick up once Severian leaves the tower and starts spending his first day in the outside world. That ought to be just happening if you're at the 100 page mark. ``` "There's a lot of my personality in my characters. I think that's why smart-asses are over-represented." Christopher Moore, in http://www.chrismoore.com/world_domination.htm ``` ---