This was a fascinating look at the academic world of translation… with magic shoehorned in so that we could turn off a switch at the climax rather than writing an effective ending to the action.
I would have rather seen this treated as an exploration of bureaucracy, political intrigue and guerrilla warfare to effect a change in the world… rather than an alternate history with nothing changed beyond “there’s magic!”
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RaveningHazelnut rated The Fellowship of the Ring: 4 stars
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
The first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien’s classic epic of Good versus Evil, set in the …
RaveningHazelnut rated How to Be Perfect: 5 stars
RaveningHazelnut rated Tress of the Emerald Sea: 4 stars
The city of dreaming spires.
It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in …
Review of 'Babel' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
RaveningHazelnut rated The Open Society and its Enemies: 3 stars
The Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper
An open society provides its citizens with a mechanism for changing government; a closed society doesn't, forcing its citizens to …
RaveningHazelnut rated The Sandman.: 3 stars
The Sandman. by Neil Gaiman (Sandman library -- 7)
A comic saga that chronicles the efforts of Delirium and her brother, Dream, to journey through the world of the …
RaveningHazelnut rated Fairy Tale: 4 stars
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy …
RaveningHazelnut rated The Lost Metal: 4 stars
The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Saga, #7)
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set―with his late uncle and …
RaveningHazelnut rated The Sandman: 4 stars
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo)
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics / Vertigo. This book …
RaveningHazelnut rated The Sandman: 3 stars
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Book 5)
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics / Vertigo. This book …
RaveningHazelnut rated Season of Mists: 5 stars
Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones, and 8 others (The Sandman, #4)
Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of his immortal …
RaveningHazelnut rated Dream Country (The Sandman, Vol. 3): 3 stars
Dream Country (The Sandman, Vol. 3) by Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, #3)
In each of these otherwise unrelated stories, Morpheus serves only as a minor character. Here we meet the mother of …
RaveningHazelnut rated The Sandman: 3 stars
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Book 2)
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics / Vertigo. This book …
RaveningHazelnut rated Being Mortal: 3 stars
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The …