I finished Ubik, which was much better in the first 60 pages than in the last 120. There's a character named Pat Conway (or maybe Conley), who has the ability to essentially move her consciousness back in time maybe 15 minutes, see multiple possible immediate futures and get a glimpse of their long-term consequences, choose the one that she thinks best avoids the problem in what actually already happened, then drag everyone along that path. In 60's parlance, the scenes that include her are mind-blowing, and I assumed were opening up exciting options for the rest of the book. And then, basically, she's not used for the rest of the book. Very disappointing, and the main conceit of the rest of the book just doesn't live up, even remotely, to the set-up. Damn it.
Still bogged down in the epilogue/afterwords of War and Peace.