I'm lucky my life isn't reviewed by Adam Roberts

[andrewducker]

Because, although Julie just shouted into the room "Andy, there is an interaction I need to have with you." it's clearly dialogue that no real person would ever utter.

(I've just been reading this review of Anathem, wherein he makes exactly that complaint about a line of dialogue that sounds exactly like things I've heard geeks say down the pub.)

Comments

[andrewducker]

It's very much in the style of the original book, which is full of made-up words in just that vein.

I'm 2/3 of the way through it, and very much enjoying it.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me but it didn't endear me to either the book or the reviewer. Can't quite see the point in reviewing a book in its own style if people who've not read the book (i.e. those that would want a review to see if it's worth reading) don't get the in-joke. It's a failure to communicate when you have to glossary a book-review.

It is of course entirely possible that visual studio crashing every 10 minutes has given me a sense-of-humour failure for the day :)

[zz]

i assumed it was meant as a warning of what you'd have to wade through if you read the book. :>

[soon_lee]

"annoylogisms"