This took me a long time to finish. I started by taking notes of each chapter, writing down things I noticed about the footnotes and the parallel stories. It asked a lot and I really didn’t want to miss anything which led me to burn out. As I picked it up almost a year later I just took the pages as they came and didn’t think much about parts that I more skimmed than digested. Maybe if I had stuck with the intensity and side Reddit research I’d feel differently, but for me this was just too cerebral to be any fun. Both storylines left me with a “well I would have quit this hunt long ago”…which might be life imitating art…so perhaps I was impacted by this book?