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Whitney
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I just got to the most famous quote from Babel which is something along the lines of “translation is first a foremost an act of betrayal”. This was greatly surprising as this line came from a character I did not anticipated.
This book is wonderfully engaging and wildly contradictory. The writing is amazing and the questions just keep piling up. I can usually tell when books will be 6-stars. This is it.
— Jan 06, 2025 08:51PM
This book is wonderfully engaging and wildly contradictory. The writing is amazing and the questions just keep piling up. I can usually tell when books will be 6-stars. This is it.
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Big themes here: colonialism, white-savoior, racism, classism, and industrialism.
— Jan 05, 2025 04:09PM
Whitney
is on page 45 of 544
In typical R. F. Kuang fashion, this is going to be brutal. In the first few pages of the book, a boy of 11 is saved by a mysterious white man (most likely his father) and made to abandon his name, culture, and native language.
— Jan 05, 2025 04:09PM
Whitney
is on page 45 of 544
I cannot get through a singular page without having to look up at least one word. Part of this is because of the user of an older English vernacular but also because of the formality of writing. I feel like this is something that I will be able to get used to as I progress throughout the book.
— Jan 05, 2025 04:01PM
