| Re: Perdido Street Station
I've just finished rereading PSS, five years since I first read it. The book seemed far easier to read this time. I suppose that in the meantime (and having read Scar and IC) I find it easier to visualise this odd world, and its even odder inhabitants, without having to do so much of it consciously.
I have to agree about the cable-laying; it does go on and on. I suppose CM, who (I feel) likes everything to be just so, felt he had to describe this in detail, if only to stop us wondering how, in a city bulging with secret police, the cable could be installed in such a short time. I just wish he'd achieved it in fewer words/pages.
I'm in two minds about Jack's appearance. It's very deus ex machina, but then there was no real need for the situation he resolved to come about in the first place; CM must have had some other purpose in having him appear; I just wish I knew what it was. (It can't have just been to get him and Yag to meet, can it?)
I don't feel up to the Scar and IC jst at the moment. In the meantime, perhaps I should try King Rat.... |