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No. I read it perfectly too. My little sister really struggled with it, though, and I had to translate it for her. So I guess if it's weird, then I'm weird too.
I loved the book, as always. I don't know that I can choose a best line. I'm already trying to figure out if it's possible to work the line about "If the knights cut you off from their rock, you get exiled from their giant glass mushroom" into a conversation at all, let alone without looking like an idiot.
Who Alcatraz murders? Attica makes sense. After all, Attica is supposedly trying to give everyone Smedry Talents, which Alcatraz knows from the tomb is not a good idea. My guess would be that Alcatraz tries to stop him from whatever he's doing, and in so doing accidentally kills Attica.
My favorite part of the book was when Alcatraz marries Folsom to Himalaya, and she starts kicking the crap out of the Librarians. That was the one part of the book that I couldn't figure out before it actually happened, and was all the more awesome for it.
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For those of you avoiding spoilers, the book is great, go read it.