Ana Margarida Lopes Margarida Lopes itibaren Dansar, Pakisztán itibaren Dansar, Pakisztán

I'd heard for a long time how amazing this book was, and I was decidedly unmoved by it. I did read the whole thing, and at 800 pages, that felt like an accomplishment. Clarke obviously put a lot of work into the back story, creating an entire historical library of magic that is cited in footnotes throughout. That kind of detailed work is, i suppose, admirable. However, I found the two main characters (rich white English men) boring. I couldn't bring myself to really care what happened to them, as the citations and historical aspect created a dry, dense read. I watched this video of Margaret Cho online where she hilariously bitches about how white people have to tell the same damn stories and history over and over and over again in the movies and how boring that is. That's what this book felt like. Same damn story. Boring.