Wull.

So I can't say that I didn't like this book, because it was pretty good, although if I have to pinpoint the thing that made me not want to rate it very highly, it would have to be the audiobook. Darn reader, though good with the voices, made it seem to drag on *forever*. And it's a long book already.

I didn't find out until Disc 14 that the audio rip I had put onto my iPod was damaged, and so stopped at a crucial, nerve-wracking, Elinor-shouting-at-everyone moment, that I had missed, by listening to the audio, the quotes from other books at the beginning of each chapter. I think for the subsequent books I will listen to the audio while holding the book so I don't miss any of the cool illustrations either.

I have also decided to watch the movie, although I hear it's awful. Call me shallow, but Brendan Fraser could read aloud to me from a phone book and I wouldn't turn him down.