Gave up on Perdido Street Station and switched to The City and the City. Better but not sure I’ll be able to get through this either. Lots of exhausting texture and atmosphere with no real payoff yet. Accéntëd nøuns annoy me.
What’s the appeal of China Mieville again?
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I’m not generally a fan of rich, baroque sensory description that do nothing but establish the setting more richly. I prefer deft impressionistic strokes and cutting to the narrative chase.
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Trying to venture out of my comfort zone a bit, but this is more just not registering than discomfiting. I can see it’s good stuff for what it’s trying to be. Just foggy on why that’s worth being. I feel about this the way I do about people who obsessively optimize typography.
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Well I’ll give it another chapter or two to hook my attention.
As someone who thinks there’s nothing wrong with comic sans, I think this may not be for me.
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