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Title: I Don't Get It
Review: I am a fan of travel writing but Iyer (in this book) is often opaque and sometimes in a muddle. "...the feeling of desolation, the air of stillness and unsettledness." Why use three adjectives when one would have sufficed? Reluctance to edit or be edited? Is "unsettledness" a word?What about page 72 when an author's words are described as rising "to a pitch of antique sonorousness."? The word is, I believe, "sonority," yes?Perhaps the cover photo (taken from a moving vehicle) should be a warning. The reader is in for something cobbled together in slapdash fashion - a windy attempt to sell bloated pretensions as engaging and worthy insights
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