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, Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, 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 …