I have moved onto my next Top 100 Book, Kim by Rudyard Kipling. It is apparently about a young man who becomes the chela (disciple) of a Tibetan lama and they are to travel around India to the "Four Holy Places" of Buddhism- where Buddha's faith was created, where he delivered his first sermon, where he died, and where his relics are enshrined.
I had kind of a hard time with the first chapter. The version I have has end notes, and there were lots of end note indicators that I found distracting. I would actually prefer not to know what something is than have the end note thing just about every other word keeping me from being focused on the story. It got better towards the end of the chapter and I'm looking forward to seeing where the two main characters go and what they experience in the rest of the book.
I had kind of a hard time with the first chapter. The version I have has end notes, and there were lots of end note indicators that I found distracting. I would actually prefer not to know what something is than have the end note thing just about every other word keeping me from being focused on the story. It got better towards the end of the chapter and I'm looking forward to seeing where the two main characters go and what they experience in the rest of the book.
I would find all of those end notes distracting too. Not to mention they don't allow you to think and explore the ideas of the book in your own way.
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