her book is what really got me out of my 2 year reading slump, and i’m looking for others like it. furthermore, i’ve been thinking of reading her novel “babel”— is it any good? i’ve seen some pretty good reviews on it but i want to be sure before i make the final decision to purchase it.
by vaselinerubber
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I’d recommend The Poppy War over Babel.
On paper, Babel sounded tailor-made for my taste: I love dark academia and I have a degree in linguistics. But I ended up DNFing the book.
I also have a degree in linguistics, although I don’t work in the field, and I loved it! One of my Chinese colleagues who is a linguist professionally, read it in Chinese and also loved it. I’m not knocking the other two people who didn’t enjoy it, but it was my top read out of 80 books last year. That said, it is nothing like Yellowface.