The Unnameables
by:
Ellen Booraem (author)
Ellen Booraem,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Ellen Booraem,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780152063689 (0152063684)
Publish date: October 1st 2008
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
As a baby, Medford Runyuin was shipwrecked on Island, where everything is named after its use and everything must have a use. Anything that does not is Unnameable, and should be destroyed. And anyone that makes or does Unnameable things should be banished. This is of particular concern to Runyuin, w...
At the beginning I felt that the style of writing was kinda dry and the pace at which the narration was set up was unyieldingly slow. After reading on though, I thought that it was a smart choice on Ellen Booraem's part. Introducing the setting and the characters before delving into the plot allowed...
The cute plot of The Unnameables is weighed down by its slow start. Allow me to summarize the first 68 pages: A "goatman" (satyr-like creature) is in a boat, but let's leave him to spend 66 pages explaining the dull coming-of-age rituals of a small island community that holds to the puritanical view...
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