I felt like this book was incredibly clever, but at times it felt like the pacing was infuriatingly slow. Especially near the start, it feels like there are too many chapters of world building per chapter of story.
I ended up skipping a lot of the Talmud related bits but thoroughly enjoyed the rest. As another commenter said it deserves to be printed, I suspect an editor would cut the length a bit.
This is the experience of reading a serial as though it's a novel.
Some of us like that! I'll read Dickens and Dumas cover to cover, I even read Worm at a pretty steady pace.
But I read Unsong as it was being published and it was great. I would eagerly look forward to the next chapter, and each one left me wanting more.
I suggest that the next time you take on a serial, be it a modern web serial or one of the great serials of the Western canon (David Copperfield is excellent), slow your roll. Read a chapter a day, or a chapter a week.
They have an inherently different pacing and if it's frustrating you, slow down.
I enjoyed all the interludes, the main plot seem mostly like a story on which to hang various ideas (but that might reflect my own limited ability to keep the whole story in my head).
Still, thoroughly enjoyed it.
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