New Review: China Mieville's Perdido Street Station
June 23, 2002 (7:06 PM) ( link )

ADDED a review of China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. Whoo! What a book. It was definitely a relief reading something so fun after Mists of Avalon, which is still a bad taste in my mouth. Use of Weapons was good too, of course, but it wasn't quite meaty enough to really satisfy my reading appetite.

Speaking of meaty books, I'm still progressing slowly through Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, which is really freaking slow. I sure hope somebody dies soon, since the leisurely plot is getting somewhat annoying. But, as a counterpart to this book, I will be concurrently reading Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry, a trilogy that is the first fantasy series Kay published. Afterward he wrote his much more famous Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan, among others--both of them books I will proceed to if The Fionavar Tapestry is any good.