[ SECRET POST #4141 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4141 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I read Harkaway's first book (he's John le Carré's son, in case anyone's interested), and it didn't have that problem, IIRC. There were other things about it that irritated me, balanced out by enough good qualities that by the end I was glad I'd read it. His first-person narrator/protagonist in that one was a bit exhausting, too. I wouldn't be surprised if all of Harkaway's books exhibit a hyper-verbal quality.

I do wonder if the narrator in Gnomon is an AI of some sort, programmed with a very precise and extensive vocabulary but without the social intelligence to know when or how to choose more common, accessible words.

On a different note, that's a very clever cover illo, and I like it.