How far along are you? - Edit 1
Before modification by Legolas at 12/07/2014 09:47:24 AM
View original postBut I don't know if I'll continue. It's not the sort of thing that I can actually follow or be truly interested in, beyond simply enjoying the flow of words and imagery and so on.
My experience was that the parts involving Adam and Eve, book IX especially but also some later passages including the gorgeous closing lines, were far and away the best (see also my review here. The ones in Heaven are often not very interesting, indeed.
And then there's Paradise Regained, which is thankfully much shorter, but has even fewer things to hold the reader's interest besides, as you say, the flow of words and imagery.