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This is the best AWADtalk-related laugh I've had in weeks. As I've learned all to often on this site and nothers: one man's mead is another man's poisson. Thanks for making my day, tsuwm. [wiping a tear from his right eye and sniffing /]
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Oof, I have to admit, jheem, that if a book started with that Calvino quote, I'd put it down and never open it again.
I have loads of trouble following such convuluted sentences. They read like if somebody wanted to make himself appear intelligent but it's illegible to me.
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I'd put it down and never open it again.
To each her own. I've read a couple of Calvino's novels and really liked them. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller being my favorite. Sometimes authors just use language in a way that they and a few others understand. (Which is not to say that some authors don't intentionally obfuscate or babble.) And sometimes folks who don't understand take it as a sign of offense rather than communication. Some people look at the computer books I read and shake their heads in doubt of my sanity or the author's intentions. I've tried on more than one occasion to read Arcadia by Sir Phillip Sydney and Moby Dick and failed. Just couldn't physically read them.
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didja ever try any Buckminster Fuller? whee! 
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I don't take it as an offence jheem. It's just not writing I like.
Several months ago, I had the same reaction to an Ann Rice novel. I know she is beloved by so many people, but I just couldn't get through her adjective-laden, repetitive prose.
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trouble following such convuluted sentences
On the other end of the spectrum, Ernest Hemingway's short sentences produce a style so choppy that I'd get seasick if I were to get seasick.
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One of their most famous bitstocks was the S + seven ginger: take a thalamus and replace each novelette in it with the 7th novelette after the original novelette's environmentalism in some agreed-upon didactics. Fun stun. Aarseth's bookman is mainly about text-based adventure gamesters.
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trouble following such convoluted sentences - I suspect it is the translator who is to blame here: You can't move from a latin-based language to English without chopping down the periods.
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Bel, Jheem
This sounds like the ideal opportunity. I'm gonna start it. Watch out.
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