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Moss Roberts, and it's not even a question. It's very dense though and there's like a billion names to keep track of, I only made it through the first ~1/3 of
by RheingoldRiver 3y ago
Moss Roberts, and it's not even a question.
It's very dense though and there's like a billion names to keep track of, I only made it through the first ~1/3 of the first volume (out of 4) before I had to give up. I want to revisit one day but I would need some sort of reading guide to follow along with that lets me look up all the character names and who is on which side etc.
- Symbiote 3y agoI sometimes find it difficult to keep track of all the names in a science fiction book when they're in some invented language (wads Acenta the good one, or Arinca?). It's easy when they have English or English-ish names. The same happens when reading a book with Chinese names. An ebook that coloured the names according to their side might help.
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoIt also doesn't help that each character has two names, like Liu Bei is both Liu Bei & Xuande, and the two names are used nearly interchangeably for most characters. And the text doesn't handhold you with dialogue & other continuity clues to remind you of relationships (e.g. "Good morning," said Alice. Bob looked up as his daughter entered the room. - without breaking the flow of the text this reminds you of the relationship between Alice & Bob).