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Old 29th August 2007, 10:45 AM   #60 (permalink)
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Re: Perdido Street Station

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Originally Posted by j. d. worthington View Post
I think the best description I've been able to come up with, in telling a friend about this, is that it's like walking through a landscape done jointly by Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali while watching the latter part of 2001: A Space Odyssey after taking a massive dose of LSD.
I'm about 100 pages from the end of PSS and, I must say JD, this is the most fabulous and accurate description of the experience I have when reading the book. Every morning I stumble off the train into the bright light of the station, but my mind is still about 3 paces behind me desparately trying to piece together what I've just read.

I'd say I'm enjoying PSS, but not loving it. It's great fantasy, but far from a page turner. Maybe when I get to the end I'll have a different perspective on it.
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