China Miéville

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Discuss . . .

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1. I read "Perdido Street Station"

It was a bit heavy going for me, but I thought they have to turn it into a movie at some point. It's gory and exciting and might make a good series for the Scifi Channel.

Reminds me a lot of Neil Gaiman.

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2. I liked how "different" it was

though, yeah, a bit ponderous in places.

I started the sequel The Scar a couple of years later - not even realizing it was a sequel, or even the same author. "Say? Why do some of the place names sound so familiar? hmmmm.... oh yeah. Perdido Street Station? Wow. I've read *that* book, must be the same guy!" lol.

The Scar - again, very different - I liked it, but I didn't like all of it. The last one I just recently finished Iron Council - eh, it really dragged in places. The weirdest thing was, I was traveling and reading in small bits and pieces. Evidently I read a chapter near the end well before I was supposed to, then picked back up in the middle - so a lot of it was making NO sense there for a while. I thought he was doing some sort of "flashback" thing - only he wasn't, I was!


King Rat - weird. Very weird.

He reminds me a bit of Gene Wolfe and his Torturer series.