I’ve now twice tried to read The Quantum Thief, which is often recommended on this sub. However, I gave up both times after a few chapters because the author doesn’t explain what anything means. It’s one thing to withhold definition of key terms and let the reader infer what they mean for the sake of advancing the plot, but the book just litters the pages with words whose meaning is not apparent, and doesn’t give you any way to understand what they mean.
Imagine a description of a room that read “Biff entered the squalch and picked his way through the grulk, which glittered with flarp. He wished he had his cragh with him, but he‘d left it back on the derpf ages ago.” and that’s how it goes, page after page. No additional context to tell you what those words mean.
The story is somewhat interesting, so I’m wondering if you ever get to a point where stuff actually gets explained, or if it’s just undefined words through the whole book.
