Babel 17

Babel 17 was a wonderful book to read with an interesting take dealing with language and extreme body modification past what is possible to date. though Rydra Wong is a little bit to prefect and seems that everything seems to fall into place for her i didn't mind that. i really liked how the book talks about understanding a language as a way to understand a culture and learning the inner workings. and like i said before i liked the extreme body modifications as what the sailors do when they are bored at port but not tattoos which gives it this wonderful twist as to i could see in the days of space travel sailors of these ships getting work done like a lions main or a tail to show off signs that they are powerful fearless and aggressive kinda like tattoos where and still are about with in the navy though that stereotype has been broken down no an extent now days. but really enjoyed reading this book and could over look some of the aspects of things being to perfect or expected because it did have a wonderful richness to it.