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June 13, 2005
The Scar
I finished The Scar by China Mieville the other night (excerpt). I found it very nearly as good as Perdido Street Station.
The concept of Armada - the floating city that most of the books action takes place on, in and under, wasn't original, but he executed it well - the claustrophobia of the place - and it's finite edges surrounded by infinite sea - were ever present.
The end was a bit weak, in my opinion, but not horribly so - and I'm not sure what else I would have done in his position.
I had tried reading Iron Council (also Mieville) and after a hundred pages it hadn't grabbed me. I've found that as I get older, and my leisure time is pulled in several conflicting directions, I have less patience to "plow through" novels that aren't holding my attention. I suspect Iron Council would have been good, and I'll probably give it another try at some point, on the basis of the rest of Mieville's work.
Posted by dberger at June 13, 2005 6:32 PM