No. My first time attempting to read it, my process of reading it went something like this:
Step 1: Read ten or fifteen pages, veeery slow, to make sure I caught everything that was happening. This took about half an hour.
Step 2: Stick a bookmark in and close the book. Then spend a while figuring out what was motivating everything that I had just read. this took about half an hour, usually.
Step 3. Close my eyes and recover from the headache that came from successfuly figuring out Ariane Emory's twisty plans.
Step 4. Return to Step 1.
Because I am a doggedly stubborn person, I made it about a hundred pages before I said that giving myself a headache every fifteen pages was not smart and gave up. The second time I tried, about two years later, whether it was because I had already put in the effort of figuring out some of the stuff, or because I was two years older and wiser and a better reader, or maybe I was just in a better mental place, but I was able to work through that first hundred pages a lot more easily while still figuring out everything, and then the rest of the book was much less of an intellectual struggle.
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Step 1: Read ten or fifteen pages, veeery slow, to make sure I caught everything that was happening. This took about half an hour.
Step 2: Stick a bookmark in and close the book. Then spend a while figuring out what was motivating everything that I had just read. this took about half an hour, usually.
Step 3. Close my eyes and recover from the headache that came from successfuly figuring out Ariane Emory's twisty plans.
Step 4. Return to Step 1.
Because I am a doggedly stubborn person, I made it about a hundred pages before I said that giving myself a headache every fifteen pages was not smart and gave up. The second time I tried, about two years later, whether it was because I had already put in the effort of figuring out some of the stuff, or because I was two years older and wiser and a better reader, or maybe I was just in a better mental place, but I was able to work through that first hundred pages a lot more easily while still figuring out everything, and then the rest of the book was much less of an intellectual struggle.