This was the May book for my local library book club. I tried REALLY hard to finish this, but all I managed was a skim read. Now that I am not at university any longer I have to admit that apart from Tolkien I try and avoid books with massive indices...so this never really appealed. I appreciate that this author won a Nobel prize, but that doesn't mean that the book (or any book the author writes) will have universal appeal. This is not an entertaining book, it's well written but for me it was a skim read, I flicked through and barely remember any of the events that happened...A book that's not for the faint-hearted when it comes to hefty tomes, hardly a book to pack in the suitcase unless you wish to use a lot of your allowance up.