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Aaaahhhh, this book, aaaahhhh!! (Side note: 600 page books ought to count double toward the reading goal.)
Are you the kind of person who liked reading Chaucer in school to get to figure out the Middle English? And/or puns in Shakespeare plays? Or James Joyce? Then this may be the dystopian future for you!
The linguistic world-building here is incredible. I ended up switching back and forth between the audio book and the written version, which helped a ton. But it's also not that difficult and it' ...more
Are you the kind of person who liked reading Chaucer in school to get to figure out the Middle English? And/or puns in Shakespeare plays? Or James Joyce? Then this may be the dystopian future for you!
The linguistic world-building here is incredible. I ended up switching back and forth between the audio book and the written version, which helped a ton. But it's also not that difficult and it' ...more
This sounded interesting, and I'm have inclined to give it a chance on the audio version, but Newman went so far in creating this post-apocalyptic world that she created a new language. Since the book is narrated in the first person it's not just the dialog, but the whole book that's written in a bastardized, juvenile form of English. While I have no doubt that you could eventually pick up the rhythm, the truth is a simply don't want to work that hard.
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This was the ugliest "language" or dialect I can imagine, and was such a barrier to understanding the story. But I finished it, finally. I can't really recommend it, as the language is so off-putting, and the story itself (of what little I could understand) seems to wobble around, unsure of where to go. I didn't really care for any of the characters.
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