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frood posted:After reading the Culture books that have been re-released recently, I picked up Feersum Endjinn hoping that it would be as good. Good god, I'm like 100 pages in and while it seems like it might be getting interesting, having to puzzle through the awful language that guy thinks in is completely killing it for me. I'm getting flashbacks to House of Leaves and having to twist the drat thing every which way on the train to try and make sense of it. Books should not be this difficult to read. It's a clever book - but I'm not entirely persuaded that the difficulty in reading it is rewarded. I had to vocalise the words to make any sense out of it. Recently finished "Matter" which left me unsatisfied for hard to define reasons. Maybe the story was too cluttered with alien races and cultures. Maybe it's because 80% of the book passes before the main group assembles and plot gets going - before that it's just a travelogue. Maybe it's the almost casual way in which characters are disposed of. nonathlon fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 30, 2009 |
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