I encourage you to push through more than the first 100 pages. It really does pick up.
Check out Publius and Billthedrill’s threads from the bookclub (post 89 of this thread). They are a good “Cliffnotes” sort of guide to the book. Pub posted each thread and Bill added his comments down thread. If you just read those two, you get an excellent guide to the book.
Those threads were way, way beyond Cliffs Notes. That’s why we turned them into a book.
Sigh, I know, I've been told this by others, many times. I'll try again, I swear it. We were told by the theater manager that Part 2 is supposed to be out sometime around Christmas so I should manage get further along by then. ; - ]
“push through the first 100 pages”
In fact, the maiden run of the John Gault Line is a fine piece of writing, full of excitement and longing and wonder.