Adele

DNF @ 9%

 “Kvothe here played the simplest song in the world and made it look like he was spinning gold out of flax. [...] Then he took areal piece of music, something only a handful of people in the whole place could play, and made it look so easy you'd think a child could play it on a tin whistle.”“I'm not denying it was cleverly done,” Stanchion said. “The problem is the way he did it. Everyone who jumped in clapping on the first song feels like an idiot.” [...]Manet spoke up. “So it's really an issue of two audiences,” he said slowly. “There's those that know enough about music to get the joke, and those that need the joke explained to them.” 

The humor is juvenile and off-putting and the characters don't talk to each other. Reviews say that isn't about to change. I bought this on a couple of people's recommendation so I might come back to it, but March has already been a terrible reading month and I don't want to start April the same way.

Put down and lost my place. This is hard to follow on audio only, so I will have to seek out a print copy eventually...it just seemed like too much effort during a monstrous reading slump.

Sadly I'm reduced to guessing when I attempted this. It's really excellent and I look forward to getting back to it - in fact it's so excellent that that's the reason I put it down. The introduction is downright inspiring and sent me to order the whole Arden Shakespeare series just to be able to indulge in more scholarly squabbling (although I have a feeling these Oxford editions are better for that).

All the best bits, if not the only good ones, were Shakespeare rather than Rio.

Had to go back to the library