I also thoroughly enjoyed it, although I haven't read it since 2006 so I'm not sure I'd like it again if I reread it.

This happens to me with fiction audibooks as well; I can't focus on what's going on in the story and focus on something else at the same time for some reason. I can't stand them; the Graphic Audio ones are even worse, with the sound effects and music and stuff it all just gets scrambled in my head the same way a loud crowd in a touristy area would.

I can do non-fiction audiobooks depending on the narrator or subject occasionally, and I don't mind podcasts either.

For most books, I almost exclusively read either physical print or ebooks.

I picked this one up after reading its praises on this sub and couldn't finish it either. I just never found any of the characters very likeable and didn't enjoy the writing style at all. I think I gave up about 1/3 of the way in.

I just finished that book last week after also avoiding it for a long time. I don't think I've had to look up that many words in the dictionary mid-read in decades.

To your question, the book(s) that put me into a reading slump were the Wheel of Time books. I....don't get the hype around them. I forced myself through to about halfway through the fourth book and gave up. Picking up the Mistborn series catapulted me out of that reading slump before the end of the prologue.