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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 791491" data-attributes="member: 259">I just finished reading Perdido Street Station Friday night.&nbsp; Holy cow!&nbsp; It starts off creepy, and just gets creepier.My fiancee is reading it now; she describes it as if China Mieville took some bad PCP and started channeling Charles Dickens.&nbsp; Me, I'm thinking he's set his book in Ankh-Morpork, except that there's nothing funny whatsoever about it.&nbsp; Terrifying, fascinating stuff.&nbsp; Anyone know if Mieville is a gamer?A friend loaned me a book about necromancers, which I'll probably read next, unless my fiancee persuades me The Adventures of Cavalier and Clay is worth picking up.&nbsp; After that, I'm going to see if our library has any more Mieville:&nbsp; the man is a powerhouse, a terrifying powerhouse.My fiancee also just picked up From Hell; I'll read that when she's done with it.theburningman, I agree about Pullman's last two books in the series.&nbsp; Although the books' antireligious themes really come to the forefront in the last two books, they were present in the first book as well.&nbsp; Pullman isn't as much a polemicist as, say, CS Lewis or Heinlein, but he's definitely got strong political and religious opinions, and they come through in all his work.&nbsp; I think he manages to incorporate those themes very well into his vivid stories; other folks obviously disagree.Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 791491, member: 259"] I just finished reading [i]Perdido Street Station[/i] Friday night. Holy cow! It starts off creepy, and just gets creepier. My fiancee is reading it now; she describes it as if China Mieville took some bad PCP and started channeling Charles Dickens. Me, I'm thinking he's set his book in Ankh-Morpork, except that there's nothing funny whatsoever about it. Terrifying, fascinating stuff. Anyone know if Mieville is a gamer? A friend loaned me a book about necromancers, which I'll probably read next, unless my fiancee persuades me [i]The Adventures of Cavalier and Clay[/i] is worth picking up. After that, I'm going to see if our library has any more Mieville: the man is a powerhouse, a terrifying powerhouse. My fiancee also just picked up [i]From Hell[/i]; I'll read that when she's done with it. [b]theburningman[/b], I agree about Pullman's last two books in the series. Although the books' antireligious themes really come to the forefront in the last two books, they were present in the first book as well. Pullman isn't as much a polemicist as, say, CS Lewis or Heinlein, but he's definitely got strong political and religious opinions, and they come through in all his work. I think he manages to incorporate those themes very well into his vivid stories; other folks obviously disagree. Daniel [/QUOTE]

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