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No spoilers here... I loved the book, but I wanted to write a review to give this recommendation to new readers: The first two chapters are written from the 'present' which sends the rest of the book into a flashback of the past. Which is fine, but after reading, I wished I saved those two chapters until the end -- for these 4 reasons: (1) It takes away a lot of the suspense because you will know a few things about what happens in the end. Big shocks are watered down in what is supposed to be a suspenseful book. (2) It takes a lot longer to get into the book. I started to read and put down a few times, and it took a few months to get passed the first two chapters because it was all descriptions of a place I didn't care about (yet). (3) The book ends rather abruptly and it needs an epilogue. Myself, I went back to re-read the first two chapters for a sense of finality -- and then they meant something to me as a reader because I did care. (4) Because it needs an epilogue, the publisher of the paperback provides an old, draft version of one in the back. Not realizing that this was never part of the book, I read it with confusion. A character's name was different, plot points were different, the implied future was in conflict with the ending I had just read, and large chunks of text were the exact same as in the first two chapters (as they were originally meant to be that missing epilogue after all). After reading this draft, I wondered why they moved the final epilogue to the beginning in the first place. And why give us a conflicting and confusing draft? ... So, hope this helps if you are eager to read this classic. Skip ahead to chapter 3 (or the last paragraph at the end of chapter 2) and save the rest for a much-needed epilogue after an abrupt ending.