Title: The language carries the book.
Review: The first part of the book --the one dealing with Fergus's stay on land begins with one of the best written chapters of any literature I know. This is a bare language that uses ancient gallic words. Brief sentences that cut and hurt and slice. My problem arose when I did not find the hero likable and when the language--mostly in the second part on ship--veers too often into dialogue. Believe me you will find the best language ever written in the first hundred pages of the book.Karl Berger M.D.
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