A review by enbeefinery
Babel by R.F. Kuang

Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

some texts are effortlessly sophisticated and poetic, but this one’s complexity felt like scratching nails on a blackboard. it was forced. the author had tried so hard to make it complex that it’d become repetitive. e.g., “he was still not sure what socialism was yet”; unnecessarily worded, it’s either “still” or “yet”. ugh. too many similar issues, i just couldn’t anymore.