The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Whew, it only took me a month to finish this behemoth! Yeah, it probably could have been shorter, but every time I picked it up, I was completely immersed in the lives of Joe and Sammy and Rosa, and attempts to get Joe's family out of Nazi-occupied Prague, and Joe's escapist tendencies and thirst for revenge, and the comics industry that served as a backdrop for it all. And sure, Chabon occasionally irritated me with his vocabulary, but I mostly got over that within a few pages of getting suckered back into the story. 4.5 stars.