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I'm enjoying the book in general, but what is *with* Pierce's language? It's like Harrison took a bunch of vaguely old-timey-sounding words and phrases, pureed them in a blender, and smeared them onto the text with a broken plastic spork. I read plenty of fiction both set in and written in the nineteenth century, and nobody talks like this guy, ever. It's rather distracting.