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jcnporter wrote:Really enjoying 'The City and The City' by China Mieville, really interesting concept and incredibly well done.
jcnporter wrote:Really enjoying 'The City and The City' by China Mieville, really interesting concept and incredibly well done.
dcom wrote:jcnporter wrote:Really enjoying 'The City and The City' by China Mieville, really interesting concept and incredibly well done.
China Miéville is one of my favourite authors, his oeuvre is as interesting as it is diverse, everything he has written has my full seal of approval and come highly recommended; there's some rather weird stuff like This Census-Taker and one of the best, The Last Days of New Paris - they're both short novels, novellas rather. The Bas-Lag series (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, The Iron Council) is Miéville's take on fantasy; King Rat and Railsea are re-imaginings of literary classics (I won't tell you which but if you're into stories, their origins become very quickly apparent). The short story collections are fabulous, Miéville delivers the short ones so intensely that you can get breathless while reading. Just read everything he's written.
The City and The City brings Jeff Noon's The Man of Shadows into mind, there's a vaguely similar city dualism at play, although its still very different from Miéville's concept. Oh, and on the subject of Jeff Noon - read everything he's written as well, starting from Vurt through Pollen, Nymphomation and Automated Alice (another retelling of a classic), Pixel Juice is a short story collection that'll blow your mind; The Needle in the Groove, Falling Out of Cars (my biggest favourite), the digital-only Channel SK1N and the already mentioned Nyquist series, not forgetting Mappalujo. Noon's not as weird as Miéville, but well worth your while.
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cowolter wrote:Currently I'm reading The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. I'm about 100 pages in so far, and I'm enjoying it. Normally I read really quickly, but this one is taking me longer than usual; I think it's because it doesn't have a lot of exposition and the world is pretty complex.
A_Northern_Soul wrote:Trawling this thread for some inspiration right now. The Northern_Soul family are off to a remote cottage in the highlands for half term and I'm going to treat myself to a new book (and a nice bottle of whisky) for the trip...
jcnporter wrote:A_Northern_Soul wrote:Trawling this thread for some inspiration right now. The Northern_Soul family are off to a remote cottage in the highlands for half term and I'm going to treat myself to a new book (and a nice bottle of whisky) for the trip...
Great book, could be a good choice for where you're going?
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