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Senlin Ascends
by Josiah Bancroft
Not sure if it's even fair to give this 5⭐ , given the other books I've also given 5.
This blows everything else I've read this year, out of the water.
Senlin is a truly fascinating character, that I think it's easy for anyone to see themselves in. An ordinary man, with an extremely ordinary outlook on life.
Thrown into a bizarre world where he loses his wife on their honeymoon, and spends the entire book trying to get her back.
His growth in only this first book is remarkable.
The writing style & setting remind me a lot of Terry Pratchett's style of world.
While the characterisation of the Tower of Babel is very much like Mervyn Peak's Gormenghast.
A building that lives.
Josiah Bancroft's humour & prose is right up my alley.
Brilliant.
This blows everything else I've read this year, out of the water.
Senlin is a truly fascinating character, that I think it's easy for anyone to see themselves in. An ordinary man, with an extremely ordinary outlook on life.
Thrown into a bizarre world where he loses his wife on their honeymoon, and spends the entire book trying to get her back.
His growth in only this first book is remarkable.
The writing style & setting remind me a lot of Terry Pratchett's style of world.
While the characterisation of the Tower of Babel is very much like Mervyn Peak's Gormenghast.
A building that lives.
Josiah Bancroft's humour & prose is right up my alley.
Brilliant.