Embassytown
by China Mieville
science fiction
copyright 2011
read (started) in February 2015
rated 4/10: bad but could be read
The book jumps all over the place. More accurately, it jumps all over the time. Or it seems to. Perhaps I just didn't work hard enough at understanding what was going on.
No, what's going on seems clear. Why, is a lot less obvious.
There seems to be some great importance attached to the language of a group of aliens. Sorry, the Language. Always capitalised.
Why in the Language so important ?
I never found out.
Page 83 of 400. Nothing has happened. I stop reading. It's. Boring. Really.
I suspect that the writing is very clever. That the story could be highly intellectually stimulating for people who read only to impress other people.
Up to page 83 and... It's. Really. Boring.
"If he had a mind, there was something on it." PG Wodehouse, of a troubled Pongo Twistleton
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