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A review by celtic_oracle
Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony
1.0
I think this book marks the end of my reading relationship with this series in particular and Piers Anthony in general. The next book in the Incarnations series has a female protagonist, and I think I might burst a blood vessel if I have to read his depiction of women from that point of view.
That aside, it might be a function of the topic (time travel) and the format (audiobook), but I found large portions of this book confusing and inconsistent. The backwards-speak sections required more focus to translate than it probably would in print (difficult when you're trying to drive at the same time) - and then the additional inconsistency: Why on earth would someone speaking backwards only change the position of the words in a sentence "hell the what?!", but reverse the order of the letters when it's a single word "Agleh" for "Helga." I'm sure the distinction was to make it easier for the reader to decipher the backwards speech, but it drove my internal logic meter off the scale.
All I can say is, "hooray, I'm done!"
That aside, it might be a function of the topic (time travel) and the format (audiobook), but I found large portions of this book confusing and inconsistent. The backwards-speak sections required more focus to translate than it probably would in print (difficult when you're trying to drive at the same time) - and then the additional inconsistency: Why on earth would someone speaking backwards only change the position of the words in a sentence "hell the what?!", but reverse the order of the letters when it's a single word "Agleh" for "Helga." I'm sure the distinction was to make it easier for the reader to decipher the backwards speech, but it drove my internal logic meter off the scale.
All I can say is, "hooray, I'm done!"