![]() ![]() ![]() I read the book when it was first published and loved it. Wrapped in a very readable mystery) on Audible's virtual shelves. And with any luck someday an unabridged "Instance of the Fingerpost" will join the unabridged "Stone's Fall" (another shockingly good book by Iain Pears, this one about the rise of international capitalism. My advice is read the book - it's terrific. Not only does he bring the accents of the characters to life (including Italian-accented British English and Robert Boyle's Scots burr), but he can switch accents in mid-sentence to accommodate both a narrator and a conversation. ![]() It's a horrible thing to inflict on a magnificent book. To my horror, the "abridgment" simply cuts out all the meat of the story with an ax, leaving us with a threadbare little Rashomon story. I had read the book years ago and thought it was incredibly good: a thought-provoking look at a society just beginning to think scientifically, wrapped in a shifting story centered on the mysterious central character. I confess that when I downloaded this, I didn't notice that itt was abridged. ![]()
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