Date: 2008-08-06 08:44 pm (UTC)
Worse yet: Dorothy Dunnett. Who has no compunctions about throwing French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Arabic, German, Irish Gaelic, and Russian at the reader, usually without translation.

(Did I miss any?)

God love her, but any author who needs not one but two companion volumes to translate everything and explain the allusions is perhaps going a bit too far.
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