Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read this because it was one of the biggest hits of last year and i had kept putting it off because of it’s monolithic size. It started strong and interesting. Well written except for tropes where the teacher is lecturing its class just so the author can lecture us. As someone who has studied eight languages I loved the idea of the magic in this book and the nuances between translating words. But in the end this book just went on and on and on. In my opinion it would have been a much much stronger book at half the size. It would have still kept its interesting world and interesting points about colonialism and been much more readable.
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