What does the woman mean on page 2 when she compares reading a book to "watching an
eagle try to fly with a string of tin cans tangled
around its feet"?
The book's dense and awkward language slows
down the story
WILL / Without looking up!
Uh huh
WOMAN
The last book he told me to read was such drudgery that I
never made it past the first twenty pages too many
extended metaphors and twenty-dollar words. Somewhere
underneath it all was a plot but I felt like I was watching an
eagle try to fly with a string of tin cans tangled around its
teet, is that book the same way?
WILL looks up briefly!
What? No, it's pretty compelling
(Continues reading /
WOMAN
Maybe I would like it then It's funny, Narek's books are
nothing like that They're real page-turners. Have you read
any of his Narek Avakian
The book contains rough language that is offensive.
The book's vivid and colorful illustrations add to the
story
The book is not written in the author's native
language
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