Got the hardback edition sat on my shelf ;)

Reading it is like trying to read custard.

I'm seriously planning to buy it - but the "Chronicles Of Prydain" by Lloyd Alexander are longer on my list. ;)

Since I had been writing even a little bit longer free-verse poems myself in m youth, I'm used to reading this kind of style. ;)

I'm also hardened by reading ancient poetry and drama, preferrably from ancient Greece & Rome authors. ;)

The only *real* problem I had with the Nibelungenlied, which IS quite hard to read, even for me, who has made it through both the Illiad and the Odyssey, and through Ovid's "Metamorphosis", too; all translated, of course.