Raiziel wrote:ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:In that you've already read it? Should I pick another book so you don't have a month off?
You happy with that choice then, Shabby? If so i’ll update the op.
acemuzzy wrote:Glad it's the month I've skipped lol
Instead filling the second half with The Man Who Was Thursday. Which is kinda fun.
Not sure if I'm as harsh about the writing style as Raiziel sums it up, but it took a lot of effort for me to get through it. It was hard for me to feel where sentences stopped or started, sometimes ending up thinking I was reading a conversation, but it had moved on already and it was actually a description again. Wasn't always clear if things were thoughts, conversation, or just information. I'm glad I read it, as it definitely was a new experience for me to read something like this. Wondering if I would have gotten more out of it if it was easier to follow, but since Tiger mentions earlier on this page that it was beyond his intelligence as well, I guess the weird word clutter at times is probably just that, clutter and not that much more. Felt like I constantly needed to see more, that things would fall together if I kept going and that his words would untangle at some point and show the actual world building, but that point never really came. Must be part of what draws people to this style, and it definitely made me curious about where things could go.Raiziel wrote:It’s all sharp edges and unpleasant going down. That’s not to say that I don’t recognise that Mieville’s talent as a writer, but I just do not enjoy the prose style he employs here. And what’s more, it seems every fourth line of dialogue is an incomplete sentence, and he does that across most characters, so that most of them start to sound the same. This just wasn’t a pleasant reading experience for me at all. It has the texture of, I don’t know, beat poetry.
Raiziel wrote:I’m not well read in high fantasy, but if you don’t mind some proper adult fantasy that’s partially set in this world then I can wholeheartedly recommend Imajica by Clive Barker.
ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:Reckon I have read that one in the past. I'm a fan of the old Barker I am. His ability to describe the indescribable is almost unmatched. Not sure I've read the full series though. I'll go back to itI’m not well read in high fantasy, but if you don’t mind some proper adult fantasy that’s partially set in this world then I can wholeheartedly recommend Imajica by Clive Barker.
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