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This one's really a book of dreams, in the sense that you don't really know what to make of it. A crazy weird read. Some stories are good, some are hmm, nonsensical. Perhaps that's what the authors intended. Just not something I'd recommend.
A delicious gothic fantasy from the master storyteller. Oh how proud Poe'd have been!
Gillian Flynn can write. Really write. The first couple of chapters unfold at a lazy pace and then, boom. Flynn reels you in - hook, line, sinker.
Nick and Amy have to be the most screwed-up couple in literature. Nick, is a perennial liar and a sorry figure, while Amy is just toxic. After Umbridge, she's the one character I earnestly wish had died a rather painful death. Despite the fact that I hate both the protagonists, I loved the book. A must read for fiction lovers.
Nick and Amy have to be the most screwed-up couple in literature. Nick, is a perennial liar and a sorry figure, while Amy is just toxic. After Umbridge, she's the one character I earnestly wish had died a rather painful death. Despite the fact that I hate both the protagonists, I loved the book. A must read for fiction lovers.
There's a reason why Mieville is proclaimed as the Czar of (new) weird fiction and the reason is The Scar. It proved to be an interesting introduction to weird fiction (after the initial struggle to get past the first 40 pages or so). A kind of sequel to his much (apparently) acclaimed and loved Perdido Street Station, The Scar is set in a super weird world of New Crobuzon, with equally weird characters, bizarre circumstances and a pair of villains so, well, villainous you just have to love them and as always, I liked the antagonists more than the uptight protagonist.
I always prided my ability to read loftily written prose and difficult vocabulary, but boy did Mieville burst my balloon! His prose is generously laced with obscure, archaic and argot words, pulverizing a poor, unsuspecting me with its linguistic superiority.
All said and done, it was a fantastical read and I cant wait to get my hands of King Rat!
I always prided my ability to read loftily written prose and difficult vocabulary, but boy did Mieville burst my balloon! His prose is generously laced with obscure, archaic and argot words, pulverizing a poor, unsuspecting me with its linguistic superiority.
All said and done, it was a fantastical read and I cant wait to get my hands of King Rat!
