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[PA Comic] Monday, May 14, 2012 - The Verge
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goddamn that dude loves his ridiculous-sounding made up words
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Most of his characters aren't very likeable. Both of those things make me unlikely to read another book unless someone can really point out some redeeming features of the following novels (or I run out of books...
And Jacobkosh is completely correct. I love almost everything Mieville's written but he is absolutely not for everybody.
You know how you can't see out the window when the train is in a tunnel? Like that all the time.
I actually like Mieville, because he assumes that the reader doesn't need to have everything spelled out. Part of the fun in his work is in how the fantastic becomes mundane, and he doesn't take the time to stop and explain everything like a tour guide.
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like soul train but with more moles
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He's reading a description of the book, not the book.
If you already have a tablet, why buy a separate device for reading?
Oh, sure, and next you'll be saying he should just do this reading on his non-reading yacht, while drinking his non-reading cognac. Not everyone is common as muck, you know. Some of us have class.
Also, disposable income.
"I had no idea you were entering the Shit Title Olympics."
Kraken made me realize Mieville is not my kind of writer.
I don't need everything spelled out for me, god knows Erikson's books are a huge info dump with a epic cast of characters and obscure references to things you may or may not have read about prior to that point. Despite all that I dug Gardens of the Moon and absolutely loved the next 8 or 9 monstrously long books ( I am however behind, and will likely require a freaking reread before I can continue with the series).
It took me three years to read those books. Three. Years. Granted, most of the time I was only reading during certain times at work, but still, finishing them felt like a Sisyphean task and when I turned the last page of The Crippled God I finished knowing that it was worth the time.
Now I'm reading the Horus Heresy series, and it feels like I've gone from a diet of prime rib to a diet of popcorn. But at least it won't take me three years to finish them all.
i think he is hugely overrated, and furthermore that you are a goober, sir.
When Gabe ragequit on The City & the City, which won a freakin' HUGO! Great book, but again... confusing as hell.
I kind of wanted to punch something after seeing that horrible name that at first seems like randomized words and fantasy crap corralled together.
Although I guess its basically Fraudulent Correct za Boopza (or two other non words that rhyme). Not that that makes it any better, if that is what he was going for. And is Medes just Hades . . . but with moles?
It really is a good idea to read the wikipedia description of it first though.
Freaking awesome book. And didn't end on a horribly depressing note for once.
woah woah isn't like the whole point that it takes you a while to work out what is going on?
For me Gabe had nothing to do with it - I simply picked up Kraken after seeing quite a few people recommend it around here and I just can't see myself finishing it. I like the idea of the book, I like the themes in the book, I like the characters in the book - but reading the book and following the story is just painful for me. It seems like it was written to be complex and unapproachable on purpose. I like to think I'm a fairly smart guy and I don't think I've ever quit a book midway through, but I like to read for enjoyment and I just don't find the way the story is presented as enjoyable.
That can be very annoying to some people, myself included to a degree.
That, and it was the description of the setting that actually got me interested in it.
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I'm pretty sure he revels in that.
PSS is still my favorite. I dunno TC, I want to be accommodating here but if people can't appreciate China Mieville maybe they should just stick to warhammer 40k books or whatever.
Kraken was a slog for me too. I probably wouldn't have finished it if I hadn't had it on audio. It felt like Neverwhere, only without the Gaimen charm.
It was a particular letdown as a follow-up to The City & the City.