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Pompous Rhombus posted:You probably won't like anything by Mieville then, he writes pretty much transparent protagonists for the narrative to focus around, rather than flesh-and-blood people you can actually relate to. Iron Council might be an exception to this but it's been a long time since I've read it. True. I never really liked Bellis as a protagonist, but The Scar is such a great book that I hardly cared after a while.
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SwissDonkey posted:Finished PSS last night, what a loving good book. My favorite part is that the protagonist isn't some buff white 20 year old army man who gets loads of pussy, it's a fat black 30-something scientist who fucks bug people. I don't remember Isaac being black.
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Oasx posted:Only thing i didnt like was how selfish all the humans came off as, they made addicts of an entire race and their solution while waiting for help was to make them even more addicted and kill the ones waiting for a fix. What else were they supposed to do? Embassytown was surrounded by the Host city and the Hosts (I think) far outnumbered humans. The only thing the humans could do to keep from being wiped out was to feed the aliens' addiction to pacify them and buy more time to come up with a plan. As for killing the addicted, I think it was pretty clearly self-defense. Also I don't know where you're getting this idea that a language that changes is a bad thing. Do you have any idea how much real languages change over time? Besides it wasn't the humans' intention to alter Language; in fact it was a faction of Hosts themselves who wanted to be able to lie in the first place.
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Chexmix posted:How does the Embassytown audiobook handle Language, when it's written like fractions? Could somebody get a snippet of what that stuff sounds like? I'm having trouble imagining it properly.
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