Literary Sympathy

The MO is reading Pandora's Star--he wanted to wait 'til he had Judas Unchained in hand before starting--and he's nearly done and just said, "I understand why you were pissed when you finished this book," meaning that things are really getting going and there are obviously not enough pages left for any sort of satisfactory conclusion. "You had to wait, what, two years??" Yeah. I felt the pain. That's part of why all nine-hundred-some-odd pages of Judas Unchained went down in a week....