http://www.briancharlesclark.com/the-city-and-the-city-by-china-mieville/ A Journal of the Irrepressible Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:54:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.briancharlesclark.com/the-city-and-the-city-by-china-mieville/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 Brian Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:04:55 +0000 http://www.briancharlesclark.com/?p=475#comment-1767 Zoe, I hadn't read his early tomes before this one, but now that I have I can say there is a striking difference. "Too many words syndrome" has been replaced with a remarkable concision. It's really an amazing difference -- as if two different writers were at work on the same interest, to whit, psychogeography. Zoe, I hadn’t read his early tomes before this one, but now that I have I can say there is a striking difference. “Too many words syndrome” has been replaced with a remarkable concision. It’s really an amazing difference — as if two different writers were at work on the same interest, to whit, psychogeography.

]]> http://www.briancharlesclark.com/the-city-and-the-city-by-china-mieville/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 zoe Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:55:59 +0000 http://www.briancharlesclark.com/?p=475#comment-1765 this sounds really, really good. i've never been able to get into mieville's writing, but i love detective stories, so maybe this one will do ti :) thanks! this sounds really, really good. i’ve never been able to get into mieville’s writing, but i love detective stories, so maybe this one will do ti
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]]> http://www.briancharlesclark.com/the-city-and-the-city-by-china-mieville/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 Lipstick Traces – A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus at Puck Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:02:33 +0000 http://www.briancharlesclark.com/?p=475#comment-1757 [...] science fiction situationist China Miéville takes psychogeography to its logical extreme. The City and the City is a hard-boiled murder investigation in overlapping twin cities whose inhabitants practice [...] [...] science fiction situationist China Miéville takes psychogeography to its logical extreme. The City and the City is a hard-boiled murder investigation in overlapping twin cities whose inhabitants practice [...]

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