Oh, just the usual kind. :)
NGL, it’s a tough read, but I figured out why…
There’s really no dialog. There are characters doing things, but it’s all distanced, like seeing things happening from 10,000 feet up instead of being in the same room.
I haven’t tried since I was in my late teens. I read a lot but that one got me. I’m 50 now and still haven’t picked it up again. Good on you.
Here’s the other problem… He repeats himself.
So the book starts with the creation myth, the Gods creating the world with a song.
Then he tells it again, with a little more detail.
Then he tells it again with more detail about the various gods, who does what, divisions of labor and so on.
That happens over and over through the book… Ok, here are the elves. Next chapter. Elves get divided into multiple groups. Next chapter. Elvish family trees.
You have to get through all that before anything significant happens.
