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Bilirubin posted:lol that's about right i was bored with it until around the time a conflict finally occurred, after which point i was enraptured......great book imo.
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May 7, 2019 11:45
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Bilirubin posted:Good to know. I will definitely keep going because it seems a well regarded book and now that the pieces are being put on the board the exposition is starting to serve more of a purpose. I have enjoyed everything of his I have read so far other than Last Days so if nothing else I expect an entertaining story (with I hear a difficult ending--don't know the specifics other than "its a hard read") difficult might not be the right word to describe the ending —- i would use “bitter.” but i think thats one of the biggest strengths of the book.......its conclusion feels inevitable. bas-lag is a much worse place than embassytown
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May 10, 2019 10:19
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just lolled to myself at the idea of someone trying to adapt PSS and having to pitch khepri to an hbo exec.....i would straight up die to watch a show where the female lead is a red skinned woman whose head is just a weird bug that talks by farting
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May 16, 2019 08:16
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mitochondritom posted:Not going to lie, all I could picture for the Anopheles-guys in the Scar were these dudes: unfortunately all i could think about was normal dudes who have anuses for mouths
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May 16, 2019 22:26
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just finished a reread of The Scar and while i said earlier that PSS was eminently unfilmable, i think The Scar might actually be perfectly suitable for adaptation
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May 17, 2019 02:48
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andrew smash posted:I really like everything about the scar for filming except uther. I don't think he even really worked on the page, on the screen what nuance he has will vanish and he will end up a generic "brooding man with dark backstory who owns everyone with a magic sword" figure all you need to do to fix uther is cast alexander skaarsgard
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May 17, 2019 03:11
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pseudanonymous posted:I think it'd be really hard to capture the wtf moment at the end when Bellis realizes that Uther either manipulated her or else is just a terrifying improviser. It's a very The Usual Suspects kind of revelation. its very confusing for sure. but u could just make her letters voiceovers and it would work
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May 17, 2019 06:07
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Oasx posted:You might as well change the ending if you are going to adapt it, it is absolutely the worst part of the book. even if its the worst part idk how it could be changed to be better
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May 17, 2019 08:02
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pseudanonymous posted:Can you elaborate as to why you don't like it? its very anticlimactic.....the titular scar is only seen in a might-have-been. in reality armada turns around right before reaching it, after spending the whole book seeking it......however, the attempted mutiny right before is very thrilling
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May 17, 2019 12:42
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i think the usual suspects is a bad movie with no plot, yes
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May 19, 2019 20:51
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ive actually not read iron council....hm
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May 19, 2019 20:53
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PSS has an extremely climactic final act
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May 21, 2019 00:17
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andrew smash posted:It's his best novel by a considerable margin, imo. agreed
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May 21, 2019 02:23
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Philthy posted:I just picked up Perdido Street Station again. I just had no time a few years back, and now I've got a nice uninterrupted lunch hour to kick back and read every day so I've been getting through so many books I've always wanted to read which is awesome. I've been wanting to return to this so bad. he wrote a really weird resurrection of the comic Dial H For Hero
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Sep 26, 2019 16:15
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Oasx posted:I think it's absolutely a positive that he is writing the stuff he wants, and not just pumping out yearly Bas-lag books for the paycheck Wrong
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Mar 31, 2021 21:20
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spectre haunting is a great title
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Jun 1, 2022 01:00
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perdido street station is great and doesnt feel as long as it is
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Jun 26, 2022 20:39
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Sandwolf posted:I’m not trying to raise an argument but I had a completely different reading that they are not parallel earths, but merely two cities inhabiting the same place, and centuries of socially conditioning people to respect one vs the other is what creates the divide. But if Joe Schmoe from America goes to the place and walks around that border checkpoint he’s not entering alternate dimensions. he means that the earth the book takes place on is parallel to our earth
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Jun 2, 2023 21:34
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I always thought City and the City was the least interesting of his books because that's just what Glasgow/Belfast are like irl the setting is reasonably novel, but its just a really good noir thriller imo
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Jun 2, 2023 22:40
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its a genre called “speculative fiction” about something that doesn’t exist, but might as well
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Jun 2, 2023 23:51
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FPyat posted:Science fiction is not merely defined by difference from reality. People mostly do not say that fantasy simply is a form of science fiction, though I’m sure there are many theorists who do. this is a non sequitur but i do argue that sometimes
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Jun 3, 2023 04:15
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FPyat posted:I'd call that the opposite of the truth. People need to stake out what exactly their terms are when there is no wide consensus about it (after all, people can't even settle whether Star Wars is SF); rather, it is when there is wide agreement that there is no need to get into the convoluted specifics. If you want your own view of its meaning to be immaterial, then you don't have much cause to declare it bonkers to adopt one of the other definitions in the contested social discourse that decides what science fiction is. its fiction with science in it
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Jun 3, 2023 13:28
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i picture them looking like smaller versions of ebrietas, daughter of the cosmos from bloodborne
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Jun 7, 2023 16:46
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Oasx posted:My go-to idea of what they look like is thats pretty much what i saw in my head
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