I read W&P a couple of years ago. My summary – first half is dull; second half is pretty good as all the plots that were set up in the first half start to pay off; epilogue made me feel betrayed – everyone loses pretty much all their character development and the women in particular either turn into sitcom housewives or martyred doormats (or both). Also, that artillery officer/ballistics geek who lost an arm kind of disappeared from the story at one point and I don’t think we ever found out what happened to him, which is a pity because I liked him.