The Chanur Saga (Chanur)
by C. J. Cherryh
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Author: C. J. CherryhEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN: 0886779308
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: DAW
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Book Review: Should not be classified as an English language novel
Summary: 1 Stars
This is the second book in my entire lifetime that I have abandoned part way through. I simply realized about 5 pages into the second "book" of the bound trilogy that my time was more valuable to me than the idea of getting something in exchange for the money I paid for the book.
The story is sparse and the number of pages plentiful. But the biggest problem is the writing itself. I couldn't even stand all the slang in Steinbeck, and this author is no Steinbeck. I can understand wanting to create a flavor for a character, to get across that the culture is very brusque, direct, and prone to insulting people within every interaction, even interactions that are supposed to be friendly (think high school jocks in space, dressed as lionesses). But after that is communicated, definitely by page 300 or so, does the author have to go on offering us choppy sentences that are missing most of the parts of speech we rely upon within the English language to convey full meaning? It is simply unpleasant to read such poor English usage for hundreds of pages. Combine that with the sparse plot, meaning very little is actually happening other than verbal exchanges among characters, and you get an altogether annoying waste of time and money.
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Here, for the first time in one volume, is C.J. Cherryh's classic adventure of interstellar politics, a spacefaring fugitive, and first contact with a strange race known as "humans.""Cherryh has given us an alien psychology story, and has done a grand job. It is a mark of Cherryh's success that here it is the human who seems alien."--Analog
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