What does this mean?Highlights
Quality
Now im scared to read his other books in case im disappointed
So imaginative and the constant use of obscure vocabulary kept me busy with the dictionary
The connection with the characters makes them come alive
Price
Embasstown is one in a long line of these
Competitiveness
Mieville invents a highly imaginative language for this fictional world
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- This product had a total of 544 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 13 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The idea of the alien language was imaginative
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Kind of but not really understood some of the ideas like what did similes do or the difference between language and language
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I could not put this book down
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Maybe had shiny feathers on the cover
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I stuck with it as long as i could but was so bored it was like sitting on a park bench waiting forever for a bus to arrive and then its not your bus
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No idea what genre that one was supposed to be
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Then read a few chapters of one of his books with with a flute played outside of a window perhaps but only few chapters and returned to the library
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For the next book of china mieville again i checked it out of the local library before spending money on it
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