I've just finished reading The Children of Men (P.D. James). It was a book Casie recommended and is now a major motion picture. Good book, spooky cover, and perhaps too well written. I didn't know a ton of the words.I did an experiment, being the nerd I am, and wrote down all the words I didn't know in a 25 page span.
These were the words: inviolate, malcontents, importunities, hamlet, tattered, profusion, prudence, decree, cassock, recalcitrant, unpretentious, denuded, blight, palliatives, grenadiers, fiefdom, dinghy, magistrates, farfel, sulky, cosseted, hieratic, jerkin, etiolated, melancholy, nonplussed, despot, edict, pittance, sojourner, indignation, derelict, estuary, pendulous, festooned, chalets, weal, crepe, posy, disheveled, buffeted, jetty, pirouetting, macabre, detritus, irresolute, chintz, palatable, and laden. Is it just me, or are these hard words?
The total came to 48 words. I could still get through the book and understand it, but maybe my vocabulary needs a little work.
The book talks about the world becoming infertile in the year 2027. It isn't hard to imagine, here in Iraq, since I haven't seen a child in over 75 days! The things we take for granted.
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I'm glad you liked the book. It is kind of a creepy cover isn't it? I think that's why I stopped to look at it. The cover was really out of place next to the rest of the books in that section.
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