Assertion: novel's reader | /r/CapableOf | lose patience
Facets:
value: probably
type: DEGREE
value: along the way
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: However, Yardley also wrote that the novel "takes on too many themes and wanders in too many directions to find a coherent shape", describing Axton's observation about language on the Parthenon as appealing but also arrived at "by so circuitous a route that many readers probably will lose patience along the way.