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Locksmith · 31st August 2007, 09:49 AM

Well, finished PSS yesterday evening.

As I said before I enjoyed it, but didn't love it and the ending didn't suddenly pull it all round for me. I could well be alone in this, but I think the main reason why I never quite engaged with it was that the whole story seemed a little contrived. I know that by definition fiction is made up (I'm not that naive), but the whole set up from Isaac meeting Yag, to the hatching of the cocoon just seemed, well, as if China knew where he wanted to be halfway through the book and worked back. As a result, the story didn't have a natural flow to it.

As a work of speculative fiction, I enjoyed the speculative elements of it, but I think the fiction side of it let it down for me.

31st August 2007, 09:49 AM	#67 (permalink)
Locksmith I also mend shoes Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Greater London Posts: 289	Re: Perdido Street Station Well, finished PSS yesterday evening. As I said before I enjoyed it, but didn't love it and the ending didn't suddenly pull it all round for me. I could well be alone in this, but I think the main reason why I never quite engaged with it was that the whole story seemed a little contrived. I know that by definition fiction is made up (I'm not that naive), but the whole set up from Isaac meeting Yag, to the hatching of the cocoon just seemed, well, as if China knew where he wanted to be halfway through the book and worked back. As a result, the story didn't have a natural flow to it. As a work of speculative fiction, I enjoyed the speculative elements of it, but I think the fiction side of it let it down for me.