Thursday, August 20, 2009
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
China Miéville, Perdido Street Station. This book grew on me like a harmless and grotesque tumor. At first I was annoyed by the florid language, but I stopped noticing, and then deep into the story it seemed a piece with the fecund world of New Crobuzon. Likewise the sprawl of settings and variety of organisms was messy and distracting early, but settled into complex and satisfying patterns.
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I've been reading a ton of China Mieville's stuff lately. I wish all those jerks that have known about this guy for years would have informed me of how cool he is.
I'm not sure if I like him or not, yet. I'll give it another book. Which do you recommend?
I liked The City & The City a lot. The detective story aspect of it is really rote, but what Mieville is good at is writing PLACES more than writing plots. King Rat is also really good.
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