Children of the Enemy

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Children of the Enemy

If you can’t trust someone with a PhD in Linguistics to recommend a novel, who can you trust?

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WarGoat
8 years ago

A wonderful introduction to a world where human life has no value, presented in friendly language.

So, the G rated version of Scarface?

Decca
Decca
8 years ago

Are any of Dr. Dekel’s languages English?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
Reply to  Decca

“… a very senseful and authentic way …”
“The language was very friendly and flowing.”
I was willing to bet the blurber’s native language was run through an automated translation program.

Odd language to blurb a modern crime story. “senseful” is a rare English word. How rare? It has a red wavy underline in the comment box. Wiktionary.org cites The Century Dictionary 1911 and i>Webster’s Revised Unabridged 1913 as sources.

Hitch
8 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

I’d bet money that “senseful” was not used intentionally, not the way that someone who’d read older literature would. BUT…I could be wrong.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
Reply to  Hitch

I hope it was not intended to be “sensual”. I wanna be wrong on that.

DED
DED
8 years ago

One of those rare times when I can say “TL;DR” about a book’s cover.

L-Plate Pen
L-Plate Pen
8 years ago

It’s like Moss from The IT Crowd wrote a book review!