I finished The Scar by China Mieville yesterday. Remember how I said that his previous book, Perdido Street Station, was almost great and only suffered from a lack of narrative experience on the writer's part? Well, Mieville fixed that in The Scar. It was awesome, and the structure was head and shoulders above that of Perdido Street Station. I recommend it to all of you SciFI/Fantasy lovers, though it might help to read Perdido Street Station first because it elaborates on the universe a bit better.
And, even better than finishing a good book, I immediately found the final book in a series I've been reading over the last year. Through some cosmic weirdness the Georgia State bookstore (notorious for its lack of selection) had The October Horse, the final book in Colleen McColough's series on republican Rome, when no other bookstore in the world had it. Wooooo!
And, even better than finishing a good book, I immediately found the final book in a series I've been reading over the last year. Through some cosmic weirdness the Georgia State bookstore (notorious for its lack of selection) had The October Horse, the final book in Colleen McColough's series on republican Rome, when no other bookstore in the world had it. Wooooo!
PS. Though the stack of books I own but have not read is taller than two of me, your endorsement of Mieville, about whom I've been curious since the gorgeous trade edition PSS landed on my loading dock a few years back, has persuaded me to let him butt in line ahead of DeLillo, Hardy, Cervantes, and several other heavyweights.