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... starting with Still Life.
Graphic novel: Local by Brian Wood. Science fiction: The City and the City by China Mieville. ... elements would also be cool, but is not necessary."
If you want a touch of sci-fi, then The City and the City by China Mieville should be right up your alley. It is structured like a procedural, but is written in a very distinctive style. Finishing The City and the City by China Mieville, a good sci-fi detective story, and about to begin the new Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol. I better finish the latter fast, as my daughter is anxious to get her hands on it. His others have been fast reads. ... restful read which felt like a relaxing visit to their bibliophilic B & B.
Just started The City and The City by China Mieville, a novel centered around overlapping alternate universes - quite different! Just started China Mieville's The City and the City. From the library, The City and The City by China Mieville, which has been getting positive comments here (I liked some of his others but not all), and from Amazon Emma Volume 10 by Kaoru Mori, a graphic novel collection of more stories from this really good series set in Victorian England. I second AnnieMod's recommendations on this: Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and China Mieville's The City and the City.
I'd add ones by Emma Bull: War for the Oaks and Finder. Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar wasn't as much my cup ... China Mieville also has written a King Rat, one of his I haven't read yet. ... led to
The Kojiki translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain
A History of Japan to 1334 by George Sansom led to
China by John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman led to
A History of Japan, 1334-1615 by George Sansom
There were a few others along the way, but this gives ... #26: KING RAT by China Mieville
This is Mieville's first novel, a dark and gritty urban fantasy set in modern London, a retelling of a legend/fairy tale. After being accused of murdering his father, Saul is rescued from prison by a stranger who calls himself King Rat. Saul discovers his ... ... series as I love the characters and setting, the char development, and the solid Christian themes.
Currently reading King Rat by China Mieville. Thought I'd document my year's reading at a place other than my book blog. I read 50 books in '06 and '07, fell short in '08, and am shooting for 50 again in '09.
Long reviews for all of these books can be found at my book blog, the Athenaeum.
So far:
... Would China Mieville's New Crobuzon books count as steampunk? They're darned fine regardless what they are. I'm not sure this totally fits the Urban Fantasy classification, but I really liked Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. His other books The Scar is maybe a bit outside of Urban and more a Maritime Urban Fantasy. ... by Rhonda Byrne
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The China Garden, by Liz Berry
China, DK Publishing ... books that they've written.
So I've decided to put those books here. (And put the philosophy is somewhere else...)
1. King Rat by China Mieville (finished)
2.The Girl Next Door bu Jack Ketchum (finished)
3.The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne Valente (finished)
... My favorite YA new reads this last year were:
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau Wilce
Queste by Angie Sage
Chalice by Robin McKinley
Nation by Terry Pratchett Count Zero by William Gibson
Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan
King of Hell by In-Soo Ra
King Rat by China Miéville
Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories by Paul Di Filippo ... have to note that the contrast is making me appreciate all over again the differences in writing styles of Iain M. Banks, China Mieville, and Peter Hamilton, which -- while certainly not all the same -- are a different genre all together than the light-fantasy likes of Sharon Shinn, Robin ... My top five this quarter (in no particular order):
1. King Rat by China Mieville
2. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
3. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
4. Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan
5. Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson In exchange for some money, Amazon sent me:
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
The Woods by Harlan Coben
The Stories of Paul Bowles
Slowly Downward by Stanley Donwood
The last is written by the guy who designs Radiohead's record sleeves. I just started Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston and King Rat by China Mieville.
*edited for bad touchstones* ... Roofworld
Martin Amis's London Fields
Monica Ali's Brick Lane
Geoff Ryman's 253
China Mieville's King Rat
Tobias Hill's Underground
To be honest there are so many novels set in London or about London it might be quicker to list the ones which are not to do with ... ... remember. I did enjoy the books though. He's kind of post modern and many people put him in the "new weird" category with China Mieville and a couple others. ... fiction I would recommend:
All of China Mieville's books - but especially Perdido Street Station and The Scar. King Rat is also great as a debut novel and not as widely known.
The Etched City by K.J. Bishop is also excellent if you enjoy Mieville's work.
Viriconium ... The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
King Rat by James Branch Clavell (touchstone is wrong)
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Prince of Wolves by Susan Krinard
Cricket in Times Square by George Selden King Rat by James Clavell
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Cell 2455 Death Row by Caryl Chessman
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
... better. :)
>#201
I liked Perdido Street Station better than the other books I've read of his, but I've only read King Rat and The Scar. The Scar I only made it about a quarter of the way in before I gave up. But I quite liked King Rat.
You know who China Mieville ... Just finished King Rat by China Miéville. Perhaps I'll go for Iron Council next. ...
Then there is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is you want philosophy qua philosphy.
For dystophia I would recommend King Rat by James Clavell.
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