So many footnotes so little time.

Normally, I’m the type of person that likes, and dare I say it, enjoys footnotes. Obviously for the fact that they help clarify what I’m reading, but in their own manner, they teach me a new fact/idea that I can (and probably will) look up at a later date. However, the footnotes for Utopia were like a novel in themselves. I feel as though I spent more time reading them than I did the novel. While I’m grateful for someone who makes it their job to put them in to text, there is such a thing as going overboard. To say the footnotes in Utopia went overboard would be an understatement.