After just a couple of days and 100 pages I am giving up. The writing is good, descriptive, but without a real story, that I can discern, this book is just not holding my interest. Last night, after about hour of reading, none of which I can relate or remember, I decided that there are other books I would rather be reading.

"Don't ask anyone to speak about you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice that your name is circulating among men, don't take this more seriously than anything else you might find in their mouths. Think rather that it has become cheapened, and throw it away. Take another name, any other, so that God can call you in the night..." (81)