Raising Steam

I'm not a fan of Discworld. It's OK. Who I truly love is Moist van Lipwig, so I only read the books that feature Moist as the main character. I was looking forward to Raising Steam, and I have to say it took me a week to “chug” through it. Honestly, I have never run up against this before, but the book had no conflict. It moves along...they build a train, there is a sort of subplot with a dwarf uprising that reads more like a commercial interruption in the storyline, and there is some action. But everything just goes alone. If a problem comes up, it is solved in a paragraph or two. There are a couple of reveals...but they aren't really anything important. Raising Steam is, dare I say it? A bit boring.
There were two laugh out loud moments and some beautifully crafted sentences that made me read them over twice to appreciate the craft that went into them, but the story was boring. I never believed anyone's life was in danger, I never believed the changes the railroad made on society were going to be anything but positive, and I never stopped waiting for the real story to get started-until I closed the back cover on the last page.
Sigh.