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Originally Posted by Locksmith  I read that bit yesterday and was just about to post on the very topic. Why did it need to go on for sooooo long. |
It comes at a very badly timed point in the book as well. Up till then, events had been rapidly gathering pace, The heroes make the big decision to leap headfirst into the final confrontation and...
...suddenly we're getting a whole chapter devoted to the sediment under the streets of New Crobuzon.
Huge spanner in the drama, tension gone, reader wondering why any author would assume he'd actually care about the dirt under the streets at this point.
I don't seem to remember anything quite so bad in The Scar. Maybe he's got it under a little more control now.
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Originally Posted by Locksmith I don't envy the job of an editor dealing with a book of the size and complexity of PSS. But then, who knows, maybe the cable laying sequence was 50 pages long before the editor got started! |
Hee hee. I'd love to see the editors notes on this book. I do wonder how much stuff got cut out.
Still a great read though.