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Hedrigall posted:Have some things while we wait for book news I also like this one: 
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Got a signed version of Railsea this weekend. So far it's my second signed China Mieville book (the other one is Embassytown).
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Deltron 3030 posted:. Collingswood is probably my favorite character so far. "What do you know about making big poo poo little?" Don't you mean kollywood?
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Railsea is a lot of fun. Is it Shroake a'clock? Not yet because holy poo poo Sham just got kidnapped by pirates! Lets read about that instead!
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Hedrigall posted:Bookdepository.com has free shipping worldwide. They also send nice emails 
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Aug 8, 2016 18:06
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Oasx posted:I don't know how it is in the UK, but here in Denmark it would be quite expensive in taxes and fines if an order from the US got caught in customs. There must be local shops that import American books. In the glorious socialist state of Norway books are exempt from taxes when you order them from abroad  
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Jeza posted:Might as well go whole-hog and start talking about how the dwarves are Jews in LotR, and Orcs are the negro hordes. It's the same level, just the other side of the coin. Even Tolkien admitted that the dwarfs were jews in his books: Tolkien posted:"The dwarves of course are quite obviously - wouldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic."
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Terry Pratchett has also been accused of making his dwarfs jewish but in a twist ending it's actually the jews themselves who are making that connection because they loving love how the dwarfs are portrayed:Pratchett posted:I've got a very keen fan from Manchester, England -- Mrs. Mayer. She's an orthodox Jew, as orthodox as you can possible be. And she swears that my dwarfs are Jewish -- because of the way they act and their huge body of lore, and how they all move away from their homeland but they say one day they'll go back.
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Spuckuk posted:I thought Kraken was fantastic, and I've given a few copies to people who've loved it.  Kraken is great, if only for the magic ipod who mainly plays bad renditions of No Scrubs.
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Apr 3, 2017 18:58
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Xiahou Dun posted:Uhh can I introduce you to any parts of anything where he talks about class issues? Rail companies ruins the world, then their inbred descendants base their society on a prophecy that someday someone will come and pay their debt
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May 24, 2018 18:16
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Hedrigall posted:The hints about that lean much more towards blatant, in my opinion. But there's also hints that contradicts this, like the fact that the technology seems way too advanced.
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Jun 25, 2018 19:28
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Just finished The City and The City The way Bowden exploited the unseeing and how Dhatt and Corwi was completely paralyzed by it was fun. And that Mahalia was murdered because she realized that there wasn't some big conspiracy was a neat twist
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Tree Bucket posted:And, given the current state of things, does the thread have any recommendations for Mievillian authors? The Anubis Gates. Horrabin would fit right into Bas-Lag.
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Xiahou Dun posted:
It also shows how evil and brutal the city government is. They have relations with Hell and no one there thinks that's kinda weird.
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Ravenfood posted:I mean, if hell existed I'd drat well want an embassy available too, regardless of what my government was. I think we could trust the Devil not to abuse his diplomatic immunity.
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Oasx posted:I know that many people don’t like YA, but I still give a big recommendation to Railsea. Why Railsea is great: 1. There's an entire chapter just about the concept of ampersand. 2. It's a YA book about the evils of capitalism. 3. The Thomas the Tank Engine bit is really funny.
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