The Country of Ice Cream Star Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from gayla.bassham

Full disclosure, I gave up on this one about one-third of the way through. The only thing special about it was the language -- which was well-thought-out and consistent, a feat in itself -- but I got tired of that. This isn't a book that needs to be 600 pages long, I don't think; I would have bee...

from dukedom_enough

First, a consumer warning. This fairly long novel is the first of a series; it ends at a moment of peril and loss without real conclusion. That the story is unfinished in the current volume, and will be continued in later books, is nowhere indicated in the title or other packaging - at least, not...

from ShawIslandLibrary

The outstanding aspect of this book is that it is written in a language created by the author to portray a dystopian future. It's an English-based pidgin of sorts, and I've never seen this done as well (except, perhaps, in Anthony Burgess's "Clockwork Orange" and, in the cinema script of the Road...

from Nataliec7

Without going into it too much, this book is long. I mean its only 640 pages long but it felt like forever. Most reviewers mention the language in the book which I found quite annoying to begin with, however eventually I got used to it and read it that way, with easy understanding of what the wor...

from Mooose

Reviews! Loved reading them because you told me how some of the words were spelled. Before this was clueless ~ that's because I listened to the book. Didn't have to struggle with the language really, just let it flow over and around me in the car until I was using it outside of the car as well. C...