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A review by hieronymusbotched
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
3.0
3.7
Well, it's no HHhH, and while there's no denying how clever it is, and Binet's well intentioned humor (he really never condescends to the reader), the plot simply doesn't hold up, which is a massive shame, because a murder mystery with basically every major French intellectual from the 20th century colliding in orbit should be the best kind of bananas.
But this book is just a bunch of normal bananas tied together with meta-fishing wire. Sometimes you get a really funny banana, but it's still a banana with wire in it.
Digression.
Well, it's no HHhH, and while there's no denying how clever it is, and Binet's well intentioned humor (he really never condescends to the reader), the plot simply doesn't hold up, which is a massive shame, because a murder mystery with basically every major French intellectual from the 20th century colliding in orbit should be the best kind of bananas.
But this book is just a bunch of normal bananas tied together with meta-fishing wire. Sometimes you get a really funny banana, but it's still a banana with wire in it.
Digression.