Book Review: Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
This was a rare DNF for me. I'm sure there's a brilliant story in there somewhere but it became too much of a chore to read.
The prose is excruciatingly complicated. Half a dozen times in one page I had to use my eReader's dictionary to look up an archaic word. Perhaps that's part of the metastory? How much we rely on our external brains.
The book is weirdly formatted. It uses different fonts to tell parts of the story from different perspectives. That's a neat idea - but just didn't work properly on my device. I suspect a lot of people have their preferred reading font set and don't want it changed.
In theory, it ticks all the right boxes for me - sci-fi dystopias and historical fiction. But it was so convoluted I gave up halfway through. Perhaps I'll return to it in a better frame of mind?
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- ISBN: 9781473539549
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