China Miéville/Bas-Lag megathread

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Kaddish: Feb 7, 2002

vty posted:

Does Scar take awhile to get going? I'm around 15%(kindle) into it She's at the lovers.. just found out the Johannes guy works for them; and really find it...boring so far. I do like Chinas writing, though. Just not finding much of an interesting story to grab onto.

It's also my first CM book; should I have done them in a different order?

The events of Perdido Street Station are referenced in The Scar a bit. You probably should have read that one first but no big deal.

I personally thought The Scar was pretty good but I felt the ending was a bit anticlimactic.

To answer your question - yes, I think it does pick up a bit.

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Kaddish: Feb 7, 2002

StealthStealth posted:

I just finished The Scar and as it is the first novel-length work I have read by Mieville, I am skipping the rest of the thread because spoilers.

Jesus gently caress this was an awesome book. I will be the first to admit that I have some deep primordial fear of water, and it utterly surfaced all those emotions in me. I don't in any way believe it was meant to be a horror novel (at least not in that aspect), but I had a nightmare about the grindylow coming out of the avanc's wound. And it was great, except for the fact that I really never need to see the words "puissant" or "opaque" again. Bellis was a great, atypical protagonist. I'd read his short fiction years ago, but I will now be after the novels hardcore.

Yes, I was very sick of "puissant" after awhile. Really what was he thinking using that word so much.

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