Short Little Difficult Books

Re:Short Little Difficult Books by tech2 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:30PM (#45969331)

One of my favourites that starts out difficult but you become fluent in by the end is Banks' "Feersum Endjinn". I love seeing people's facial expressions on first attempting to understand Bascule, or read it "normally".

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Re:Short Little Difficult Books by thesaintlives on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @01:08PM (#45969858)

Great novel! Love Banks..

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Re:Short Little Difficult Books by inejge on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @01:09PM (#45969873)

Eh. The only thing I remember offhand of Bascule's orthography is "Ergates thi ant", although for some reason the book is the rare one where I've effortlessly memorized the names of many protagonists (I'm not very good with names, both IRL and in literature.)

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