As an avid reader and lover of *most* dystopian books, I was quite excited about the premise of this novel where essentially the digital age kills the age of print.
Sadly, I could not get in to this book and am giving up after Chapter One. I am not a fan of books that make me feel stupid and having to stop the flow of the story to look up word definitions does exactly that. If that was the intention of the author, bravo! However, no thanks. This is filled with $0.25 or word of the day vocab and I'm really not a fan of footnotes being included in something that I'm trying to read for leisure.
*Digital review copy provided by NetGalley and the publisher.
Sadly, I could not get in to this book and am giving up after Chapter One. I am not a fan of books that make me feel stupid and having to stop the flow of the story to look up word definitions does exactly that. If that was the intention of the author, bravo! However, no thanks. This is filled with $0.25 or word of the day vocab and I'm really not a fan of footnotes being included in something that I'm trying to read for leisure.
*Digital review copy provided by NetGalley and the publisher.
The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon is set in a future New York City and is a book about language, interpersonal communication, and about technology's effect on our communication patterns. It is an appealing premise, but the book falls short of its promise. The stream of consciousness narration, the needlessly difficult word choices, and the extensive, substantive footnotes make the book really difficult to read.
Read my complete review at: http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2014/04/the-word-exchange-novel.html
*** Reviewed based on a publishers galley received through NetGalley ***
Read my complete review at: http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2014/04/the-word-exchange-novel.html
*** Reviewed based on a publishers galley received through NetGalley ***
