Over 800 pages, and the ending is like the author himself got tired of trying to figure out what to do with his own story and just walked away. I want my money back, and my time it took to read this book. Comparing him to Dickens is so misleading to true fans of literature.The book started out interesting enought to keep me going though it bogged down in the middle. The characters never developed, we got page after page of their same behavior without new insight. Henry burns to death in the middle of the book just when I was beginning to see him as the savior who would somehow tie all the characters' narratives together. That was just one example of disappointment in this pathetic book. Save your money!