01-27-2011, 04:37 PM
It took me about 3 months to get through my first reading (books 1-4). I read them online and couldn't manage more than one chapter per evening. This is principally due to Ra's language; it is dense, idiosyncratic, and often ridiculously florid; some of it is so elaborate, as to appear evasive. I often had to read a sentence 4,5, or 6 times to understand it; sometimes even then I couldn't. I found the second reading to be more satisfactory than the first.