For the first 50+ pages I felt like, though I was enjoying it, it was never going to end (it's one of those books that's longer than it looks, so you feel like you're not making any progress); for the last 100+ pages I was hoping it never would. It's funny, really, because several of the characters were infinitely annoying to me--but I just didn't want to leave that world. I'm going to have to find and read the whole strip sometime, all twenty years of it. The politics in the earlier years were a little overwhelming to me, because I wasn't conscious of them when they actually happened, so I was trying to follow very detailed conversations and learn what they were talking about at the same time. It was completely fascinating. And even though half the time I wanted to slap Mo and tell her to snap out of it, in truth, she's basically me--which is kind of humbling, frustrating, and comforting all at once.