I’m a little over a quarter of the way through it now, and last night I had to read until I got to a place I actually liked because I knew that if I “stopped for the night” while hating it that intensely, I’d never pick it up again. I’m hoping things will improve, though. At this point my hypothesis is that it’s a case of “this author is so famous, the editors don’t bother to try and say ‘no’ anymore.”
On the bright side, it has me listening to The Well-Tempered Clavier again, which hasn’t happened in ages, and I’d missed it.