& The Wow.
It’s not often I overcome my laziness and write much here, but: China Miéville’s latest book, The City & The City? Wow. With extra wow sauce and a side of wow salad.
I can’t / won’t do a proper analysis of it, so let’s just say that it’s one of the best books I’ve read in the past few years and that it’s amazing and that you should go and read it.
To borrow and mangle a pull quote from the back of the Snuff Box DVD: it makes every other book on the shelves feel like a rotten swizz.
The depth and quality and layering and writing and sheer quality of TC&TC is so far head and shoulders above most of the fiction on the shelves at the moment that it’s hard to understand how other writers sell any books at all.
Ok, I may be going overboard a bit here, but it is very, very, good.
Um…
bye!
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Perdido is the only book of his I’ve read, which I thoroughly enjoyed, so I’ll definitely look this one up. Thanks for the recommendation. It always make me feel warm and fuzzy to see someone rapturise in an almost child-like manner about something. That’s a compliment, btw
Mr M produces stuff of a consistently high quality.
Two more of his that I must recommend (that we also have and can lend to you): The Scar (epic, sprawling fantasy) and Un Lun Dun (has pictures! also amazing turn-it-on-its-head-y-ness).
Squee!
Ahem.
This concludes our Mieville Fanboying session.
Join us next week for “Murakami – ZOMG!”