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Posted 2015-04-17 10:00 PM (#10167 - in reply to #10163)
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I'm about halfway into this book. It's complex and intense. It's basic concept takes awhile to get accustomed to. I won't explain it here - at this point there are 35 reviews of the book here on WWE. It puts me in mind of The City & The City by China Meiville. Not that its story is similar; it's not at all - but that its concept is so unfamiliar, original, different, that it takes concentration to grasp it. The prose is dense; I sometimes find myself rereading a sentence or a paragraph to get the meaning of it.

Here is a little oddity: Our narrator frequently comments on the length of time a speaker pauses in conversation, 3 seconds, 6 seconds. I just found it curious. Perhaps it is to convey her Commander Data-like personality.

I jumped the gun in posting this here - I am still far from finishing the book. It would make for a good discussion.



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