I don't know if I'm going to be able to finish that Great Terror book. I really want to read it, but I've been trying to read it for a week now and I'm about, oh, 17 pages in...

If ever there was a book on tape needed, it is now. I think this is something I either need to read a Reader's Digest version of or get some kind of background material before I try to tackle the Great Terror, as they're just throwing names and terms at me left and right and it's like slogging through the Le Brea Tar Pits...

Oh well. I still have 2 more weeks to read it.