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Title: Make the effort for this one.
Review: I read this book a few years ago when I went through a phase of reading post-apoc fiction. There are many good books in that genre that explore the concept of what humanity will look like, and even some that explore what we'll sound like. But this book stuck with me because while it took concerted effort to "get" how to read the story, once I did, it was practically effortless to maintain. Once I made the conscious connection between sounds and the words on the page, I had no issues.Ironically, I think younger readers would have an easier time making that mental switch, as I think it's the accumulated learned distance between the written word and oral storytelling that creates the hurdle that most negative reviewers seem to be stumbling upon. Focus on hearing the sounds that those individual letters make, and the cadence of a person telling you a story, and you'll have a much easier time with this book.
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