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I really like Miéville's stuff. I read Perdido since it was recommended in the Hall of Fame thread, and I really enjoyed it. A lot of people complain about the ending, but I think it's quite a good mind gently caress for the reader because when you sit down and think about it, everything happened because of the rape and that makes it even more depressing. I usually don't like such endings, but I thought it was fitting. The Scar was also a great book, but I missed the setting of New Crobuzon. Tanner Sack was a really great character and it was nice to have some Remade perspective in the novel. Iron Council was my least favorite of the three. I didn't find the main characters or main plot as engaging or interesting as the first two books, and I got kind of sick of reading about Cutter masturbating all the drat time. I'm definitely looking forward to more of the Bas-Lag series. I've seen his other books at the library, but just haven't grabbed them. I think I'll pick up King Rat next time I'm there though.
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I'm about 200 pages into the Kraken and finding some of the characters' dialogue hard to read, like someone else previously mentioned. It's not a bad book, and there's interesting things, but not much has really happened and I'm about 1/3 of the way through it. I have two more Mieville books on my list (Un Lun Dun and Rat King) and I'm still waiting for another Bas Lag book. I will probably get poo poo on for this, but I didn't like TC&TC all that much. Inspector Borlu was a very well-written character, but I didn't like much else.
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Sep 2, 2010 20:38
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Hedrigall posted:Yes of course. Why wouldn't it be if you liked the other Bas-Lag stuff? Maybe if you don't like reading about a character constantly masturbating... Every time that happened it pulled me right out of the story.
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