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... Jordan/Brandon Sanderson
*Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
*Skallagrigg by William Horwood
The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Out of Eden : The Peopling of the Wor ... 143. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
This had so many similarities to The City and the City which I read a little while ago, that it felt like I was reading the children's version of the ... ... will be sure to appreciate this one.
alcottacre - #115 don't blame you! and #118 I think you will really like it.
68. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
This had so many similarities to The City and the City which I read a little while ago, that it felt like I was reading the children's ... ... Berly! Oh yes, much better. I'm only about six books behind in my reviewing, so while I had a nasty headcold while reading Un Lun Dun, that was about a month ago now. :) 89. Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
A serendipitous library find. We'd borrowed this once before, but hadn't gotten around to reading it. This ... Finished Un Lun Dun and I did like it. What felt forced in the first half became effortless in the second, and I really soaked up all the imaginative details and plot. Highly recommended, especially for Neil Gaiman and Lewis Carroll fans.
I think I'll take the fourth Joe Pitt to bed with me ... ... so gave up on him entirely, assuming that Land of Laughs was his one good book. How fickle of me!
Currently reading, Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. Yes, I should have picked up a bookring, but was just so filled with gross head goo, that this is about all I can manage. (And I'm most of the ... I took a short journey to Tokyo with Strangers by Taichi Yamada, but am now in Un Lun Dun. ... and am heading straight back to bed once I've sorted out a few online things (and finished my cup of tea).
Picked up Un Lun Dun by China Mieville as a nice easy (ie, young adult) read while my head fights free of this suffocating headcold. The opening chapters were a bit too young for ... I'm reading two right now: Un Lun Dun by China Mieville, which is like a modern trip down the rabbit hole. Very well done. And, The Child Thief by Brom, both with great artwork by the authors themselves.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is next! ... start with such an open category!
1: Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
2: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
3: Un Lun Dun by China Mieville*
4: Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly*
5: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip*
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8: ... Book 10 (does this have a title yet?) - Charlaine Harris
(2) Prophecy of the Sisters - Michelle Zink
(3) Un Dun Lun - China Mieville
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Finished both Under A Velvet Cloak (uggh!) and Un Lun Dun (brilliant!) and am now reading The Grey King for the group read.
29) Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (started Oct 4 - finished Oct 6) (reviewed)
YA/children's book (and I am "borrowing" the cover idea! as seen in other people's threads)
Brilliant. Lov ... ... trying to decide which library book I am going to read - either Piers Anthony's Under A Velvet Cloak or China Mieville's Un Lun Dun (or both!) >32 calm - for your first experience with China Mieville, I wouldn't pick Un Lun Dun. It's pitched to a younger age group, and to me it's the weakest of his books. His new one, The City and the City, is good, and Perdido Street Station is another standout. ... give a lovely feel of time and place, one of my favourite authors. I also have 2 library books to read China Mieville's Un Lun Dun for my first experience with this author and (to satisfy the completist in me) Under A Velvet Cloak by Piers Anthony. 97. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
98. Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and other classic fairy tales of Charles Perrault by Angela Carter ... Little Country by Charles de Lint
Inkheart by Cornelia Funk
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
A Man Betrayed by J. V. Jones
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
H ... Well, thank you for sending it! Re Un Lun Dun, enjoy the Binja! ;)
#148/9 Rachel, OK, so I have now actually looked at the Festival of Ideas program properly and realised that the reason I couldn't book a ticket is that it's a free event and no booking is needed - so definitely see you there! ... Cool, that arrived very fast. I hope you like it as much as I did. I have Un Lun Dun on my tbr pile, it's just that my tbr pile is more like a mountain!! ... tactic" reading...). Well, I have the excuse that it fits one of my very unfulfilled 999 Challenge categories!:
87) Un Lun Dun - China Miéville
999 Category 2 - Unfinished books (2/9)
Strange things are happening around Zanna. She is the Shwazzy, whatever that may be. When ... ... watching my number of words posted on LT and other sites. It's working for me. Thus, going silent for a period.
I liked Un Lun Dun and will probably re-read it to pick up on what I might have missed the first time. Even though it's YA it's still Mieville with all his stylistic descriptive ... ... I hope you'll accept my congratulations on passing the challenge goal!
Interested in China Mieville - have a copy of Un Lun Dun around. You like, then? #122: Un Lun Dun sounds crazy and wacky! Sign me up. torontoc (from last weeks thread)
Last week you said you have finished reading Un Lun Dun and I wondered how did you like that book? I have a copy of the new one. I have been wanting to read them but haven't found the where-with-all to move them up on the TBR pile. I understand that the ... I'm about halfway through Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. I'm also reading Green Rider by Kristen Britain (will probably finish it today or tomorrow) and I just started Body Dump by Fred Rosen. Look out library, here I come . . Un Lun Dun sounds like my cup-of-tea! I finished Un Lun Dun by China Mieville and have just started Galore by Michael Crummey. 107. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. What a fun adventure! This young adult book introduces the reader to an alternate London or UnLondon where rubbish bins ( my favourite word-binja) are trained in martial arts, there are nasty attacking giraffes and the threat of smog leads to feats of ... 107. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. What a fun adventure! This young adult book introduces the reader to an alternate London or UnLondon where rubbish bins ( my favourite word-binja) are trained in martial arts, there are nasty attacking giraffes and the threat of smog leads to feats of ... ... (touchstone not loading)
Peter and the Starcatchers and the others in the trilogy
Books by Betsy Byars
Un Lun Dun
You could also try The Ruby in the Smoke and its sequels. I'm reading Un Lun Dun. I'm now reading Un Lun Dun. ... must hurry to save all three worlds speeding to imminent destruction.
Other books I'll be trying will be Stoneheart and Un Lun Dun.
158) Bunker 10 by Jan-Andrew Henderson (2007)
teen scifi
After enjoying J. A. Henderson's Colony, I wanted to read another of his scifi adventures ... ah I forgot about Un Lun Dun. I haven't read it myself yet it is still languishing on my TBR. I think looking for Jake has a couple of stories printed elsewhere i.e The Tain & Looking for Jake.
I have to say you have intrigued me with Crash Gordon and The Mysteries of Kingsburg. I am not ... ... read some of the stories in anthologies and such.
avatiakh, I'm not sure if you've read any New Weird or not? If not, Un Lun Dun is a good book to ease into China's style. If you have read some then jumping into Perdido Street Station is excellent advice for jumping head first into Mievil ... I haven't read anything by China Mieville yet, but want to. What is a good one to start with? Perhaps you would like Un Lun Dun, Perdido Street Station and Iron Council by China Mieville. Or The Fade by Chris Wooding. ... of Smekday
There and Back Again (Pat Murphy)
Treasures of Morrow (H. M. Hoover)
Uncharted Stars (Andre Norton)
Un Lun Dun (China Mieville)
Wild Side (Steven C. Gould)
Wind Singer (William Nicholson)
The Winds of Mars (H. M. Hoover)
Witch World (Andre Norton)
Yanked (Na ... ... (Jerry Pournelle)
The True Meaning of Smekday
There and Back Again (Pat Murphy)
Treasures of Morrow (H. M. Hoover)
Un Lun Dun (China Mieville)
Wild Side (Steven C. Gould)
Wind Singer (William Nicholson)
The Winds of Mars (H. M. Hoover)
Yanked (Nancy Kress)
Z for Zachariah ... ... (Adam Rex)
There and Back Again (Pat Murphy)
Treasures of Morrow (H. M. Hoover)
Uglies (Scott Westerfield)
Un Lun Dun (China Mieville)
Unwind (Neal Shusterman)
Wild Side (Steven C. Gould)
Wind Singer (William Nicholson)
The Winds of Mars (H. M. Hoover)
Yanked (Nanc ... ... SF writer for kids and YA)
a wrinkle in time - classic and v. good.
aliens in the family margaret mahy
un lun dun China Mieville
there and back again Pat Murphy - terrific SF take/homage to the hobbit.
shade's children Garth Nix
lizard music daniel pinkwater
mortal ... ... really happy enough, in general, to see the lines between "literary" and "genre" novels blurred to any extent possible.
Un Lun Dun does look interesting. Although I was thinking about picking up The Scar next... That's set in the same universe as Perdido Street Station, yes? It did ... ... liked all his books (unlike the rest of my family). I think if appealing characters and a recognizable plot are in order, Un Lun Dun - perhaps because it was YA? - is a good choice for Miéville in a easier to digest mode.
Miéville is just as over the top as Bolano but, for whatever ... ... he 25 when he wrote that? It's been interesting to watch his writing mature and see the interesting things he does with it. Un Lun Dun is certainly very different but equally inventive, and the same can be said about the new one The City & the City (tip: don't read the reviews before you read ... ... into any of the books I'm trying to read. I've started but am not even near finishing: To Say Nothing of the Dog, Un Lun Dun, His Excellency: George Washington and A Distant Mirror. I think they are all good, (except His Excellency is kind of dry) but events have put me into a ... For Fannyprice (take two and call me in the morning):
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville. Whimsical, imaginative and thoughtful story of two girls' adventure in an alternate London beneath the actual city (Un Lun Dun, get it?). Guaranteed to delight and also cure the common cold.
The Logogryph ... Racing around Un Lun Dun with Deeba. ... what I got:
Territory by Emma Bull
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
The Last Apprentice (Revenge of the Witch)
I had an extremely stressful work week and I'm trying to ... 9: I had a little trouble getting into Un Lun Dun as well, but a little ways in, I couldn't put it down. It does indeed get much better.
I'm read The House of the Scorpion right now. I swear I remember seeing a bunch of reviews raving about it as the best sci-fi book ever, and it's good, ... ... which was amazing, and which could definitely be read by YAs even if the content is perhaps not suitable. Now I've started Un Lun Dun which I'm having a bit of trouble getting into. Hopefully it improves soon. ... of Sticks is great too. Characters wander in and out of his books, but you can read his stuff in any order.
42. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville An "eco-fairytale". Killer smog. Trash cans to the rescue. Flying double-deckers. Alice in Wonderland for the 21rst century. A bit ... ... Guide to New England Writers' Homes -The title grabbed me, but I also like the story. I haven't read it yet, though.
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville had an interesting enough title, and I actually did start reading it, but got sidetracked and haven't piced it back up again.
The Bus Driver ... ... suge's #245 but whoever guesses seven posts from now be sure to guess wrong for Espy's. ;)
#247 - Is is Deeba from Un Lun Dun?
Oooh, Un Lun Dun looks interesting!
I'd love a review... Un Lun Dun. It's quite unusual and well done. It does have a female lead, but she's not originally cast as such, and so is not typical. Also, the other main characters are unusual and distinctive enough that it shouldn't aggravate your bias too much. ... She & It, Marge Piercy
Not Library
42. Count Zero, William Gibson
43. Anatham, Neal Stephensen
44. Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
45. Looking for Jake, China Mieville
46. Burning Chrome, William Gibson
47. The Dreaming Void, Peter F. Hamilton
48. Ki ... ... a concept is there, for example, Miéville's look at waste, pollution and how we shunt our garbage off without thought, in Un Lun Dun, does that make it any less valid because it's couched in a YA fantasy than watching a David Suzuki show on pollution?
Reading has one step involved which ... ...
T.W.O.C. by Graham Joyce
Black Juice, White Time, Red Spikes, by Margo Lanagan
Bear Daughter by Judith Berman
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor
(there's probably others, but these are just off the top of my head).
First, let me say, I was ... ... I am going to read The Return of the Soldier. I've liked everything else I have read by Rebecca West. Regarding Un Lun Dun, I read a review copy last year. I found Mieville's comments about writing this book more interesting than the actual book. He says that in some ways this book ... ... or interest. You made me feel vastly better about the last two or three months.
Fascinated by your YA readings. I read Un Lun Dun by Mieville this winter and it was one of the best reads of 09 so far - it too was tagged YA. There's a whole world out there (e.g., the Libba Bray series).
Y ... ... it on a day which needs a lift.
The David Sedaris was pretty much what you'd expect from him, I think. An ok read.
Un Lun Dun was delightful, pure and simple. It was touted as a YA book but I think it would delight anyone unless you are someone who detests alternative worlds and ... un lun dun though aimed at the YA audience is excellent and doesn't display the "biological perverseness" that i enjoyed, but defn. turned off the 3 people to whom i loaned his books. ... need to hear from me at all. Don't read a review first. If you haven't read him yet, Perdido Street Station or his YA Un Lun Dun should show you how good he is when writing fantasy, although those earlier novels are very different from the new book. If you must, read the reviews when they ... ... need to hear from me at all. Don't read a review first. If you haven't read him yet, Perdido Street Station or his YA Un Lun Dun should show you how good he is when writing fantasy, although those earlier novels are very different from the new book. If you must, read the reviews when they ... ... I've read everything of Mieville's and liked it all, so "the city & the city"* will have to be obtained. I thought un lun dun was charming and just the book for people who don't like Mieville's more grotesque flavors.
*corrected. nb. ... May. I'm about 60 pages in so far, and loving it. It's more like one of his short stories than one of the Bas-Lag novels or Un Lun Dun.
I think I now grasp the relationship each of Mieville's two cities has to the other, in this novel, and it's a lovely and gripping conceit. If you' ... ... by Sheri S. Tepper
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Requiem for the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
& with my $80 borders voucher (+ $6 out of my pocket) I got:
Prophecy: Child of Earth by Elizabeth Haydon
Rhapsody : Child of Bl ... >19, 20, 21 Just to add the comparison between Un Lun Dun and Mieville's other books. . . Un Lun Dun is whimsical and fun, sort of Alice in Wonderland ish (it's been marketed as YA). Perdido and all the Bas Lag books are adult and dark, full of creatures terrible and not so, has political and ... Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore. I'm really liking this so far.
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima. I've read Un Lun Dun -- it was great! LG, I think you'll really enjoy it.
But I've never read Tuck Everlasting. (It's on my TBR.) I'm always putting in the stumpers, huh... Well, um, haven't read Un Lun Dun yet, either. (But it's TBR.)
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 3. Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
What a brilliant fantasy and a fun, fun read. I should do a review of this but in the meantime, highly recommended.
YA Fantasy
471 pages ... Stardust by Neil Gaiman.
Neither of these has much romance but for strong, quirky heroines in magical situations, try Un Lun Dun by China Mieville or The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint. On Liberty went to Mississippi; Thirteen went to Brooklyn..all through BookMooch. Un Lun Dun went to an LT friend in Canada. ... Manguel
Illustrated London by Peter Ackroyd
Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
blert by Jordan Scott
un by Dennis Lee
Nerve Squall by Sylvia Legris
Light Duress by Paul Celan
The Sands of Dream by Therese Renaud
Men of Letters & People of Substanc ... I've read Un Lun Dun,
But I've never read Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires I). I've read The Thirteenth Tale but not Un Lun Dun (but it's on my TBR). ... update my TBR pile:
Speaker for the Dead
Furies of Calderon
Night Watch
Dragon and Thief
Un Lun Dun
Evil Genius
Peeps
Life As We Knew It
The Shape-Changer's Wife
Preludes and Nocturnes
The Hound of Rowan I've just wandered into Un Lun Dun, and am finding it fun and quirky, if a bit eerie and dangerous. I've just started Un Lun Dun, and am enjoying it so far. My votes are for:
City of Ember
Everlost
Un Lun Dun I voted for
The Lightening Thief
Un Lun Dun
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
I'm new to this group so I can't wait! ^^; *waves* ...
For convenience, the complete list is
The Lightning Thief
City of Ember
Alanna
Nick and Norah
Wide Awake
Un Lun Dun
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
Everlost
Magic or Madness
It's Kind of a Funny Story I voted for:
City of Ember
Un Lun Dun
It's a Funny Kind of Story
#1: Just a thought: it might be useful for others if you could get all the touchstones working in the first post :) Or how about Un Lun Dun? I think this one has potential for a good discussion. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville is good. Sometime's it's shelved with the children's books, but it's really too sophisticated to be children's lit. It has elements in it of Lewis Carroll and Neil Gaiman, and enough contemporary British elements to make it edgy for older teens and adults. Plus, it is ... ... NOT primarily a story about sexuality - its's just an important subtheme woven nicely into a skien of other. Meilville's Un lun dun; Pat Murphey's wonderful retelling of The Hobbit in space - There and Back again. 10-12th grader would likely enjoy Snow Crash as lot - if the parental ... ... the first young adult novel--it doesn't hold a candle to what's being written for teens now.
Next it's back to Un Lun Dun which I set aside a while ago. The Historian is next on my TBR list. Hope it doesn't fall prey to the Shadow of the Wind phenomenon.
Actually I haven't ... ... really interested to see what John and Hank Green--and all the 15-year-old NFs think of it!
Next, I swear I will finish Un Lun Dun. I've also checked out The Historian which has been tempting me for a while, and Laurie Halse Anderson's latest, Chains. (Not touchstoning--perhaps it ... ... really interested to see what John and Hank Green--and all the 15-year-old NFs think of it!
Next, I swear I will finish Un Lun Dun. I've also checked out The Historian which has been tempting me for a while, and Laurie Halse Anderson's latest, Chains. (Not touchstoning--perhaps it ... ... TBR pile.
I may have missed your note of this but are you reading the Japanese lit in English or Japanese?
I loved Un Lun Dun. It was just great fun. ... fun as I had hoped. They could have done even more with the Disney setting than they did.
Then I actually did start Un Lun Dun which is pretty good, but since I tend to read fantasy rather slowly, I've set it aside in order to get through Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (adult) for my ... #44 Un Lun Dun by China Mieville -- fiction/fantasy
A very good fantasy story about two girls who discover an alternate London, where all the things that disappear from London end up.
#45 Sierra Campfire Yarns by Deep River Jim -- nonfiction
A fun little book I bought in Yosemite, ... ... Factory by Brad Barkley and Heather Kepler. Definitely needing something light and fun! Then it will be on to Un Lun Dun and the first of Elizabeth Knox's dreamquake books. I'm listening to Cold Sassy Tree which we have only recently added to our audio collection. Loving ... Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Now purchased, read, rated and reviewed ... well-received by my YA Librarian friends, but my teen daughter recommended it highly. Then, finally, it will be on to Un Lun Dun! ... cover (I know) but was worth it. Have since seen nothing but good reviews about it and excitement about her next book.
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville - recommended all over the place by everybody as a great new teen fiction story, interested by the cover and the review in The Times Books ... 40. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Bought 17/06/08 Waterstones Online
I had heard good things about this teen fiction book and decided to give it a go. I am glad that I did because it was a very imaginative book, full of interesting, odd and impossible characters (my favourite was Curdle, a ... ... * by Lois McMaster Bujold
4/30 Victory Conditions by Elizabeth Moon
5/1 Code of Contact by Kristine Smith
5/2 Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
5/3 Interworld by Neil Gaiman and
5/4 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
5/10 The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carr ... ... read Neverwhere yet, but it's on my shortlist. I'm looking forward to reading it, and it reminds me of Mieville's Un Lun Dun by the descriptions, anyway. Both occur in an alternate, parrallel London.
... Rose by Patricia McKillip and am well into The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington.Still in my TBR pile:
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
An Abundance of Katherines John Green Help! I know I checked it out from the library, but it's not in my pile! Where is it? L ... I really enjoyed Un Lun Dun - hope you like it!
I just finished Hurt Go Happy and The Angel Experiment - the former being exceptional and the latter being a good adventure, just what I expected.
Reading some nonfiction stuff now but next up might be Oggie Cooder or Song of the Sparr ... ... Book of Lost Things!
For me:
CR: Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder
Up Next: Un Dun Lun
I'll let you know after that. MAN, I need to seriously update my 50 books 2008 thread and profile! Grrr.. #20 Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
This one started a little slower than I hoped. I enjoyed this book a lot. It has a very strong environmental message for the reader, which is interesting to see in a ya book. I loved that this book had a message that the unchosen ones can make a huge ... ... included at the end of the book. I really want to try some of them. And the lady who wrote it is an inspiration.
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I really liked Un Lun Dun. It was charming and creative and really very entertaining. I became totally involved with it as soon as Deeba ... They shouldn't change any of it.
One thing I love about Un Lun Dun is in the American edition, they publish a glossary for English idioms in the back. Way to educate rather than condescend! ... Winsome by Gerard Donovan
17. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
18. Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker
19. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
20. The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo
21. Bloodring by Faith Hunter
22. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
23. The Unnatu ... drneutron, you might also like China Mieville's Un Lun Dun which is very Alice-in-Wonderland-like. He has a marvelous imagination!
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I loved Un Lun Dun, not only because the writing was good, but because I read a lot of fantasy, and it was nice to see some of the genre's staple tropes stood on their heads! ... Playing With Fire
CR: Fade
LF: Twilight I know, I know, I've been putting this on here for months!
LF: Un Lun Dun
LF: The Wednesday Wars
LF: Faerie Wars
... an author that looks absolutely NOTHING like how you pictured him/her in your mind?
I recently read the YA fantasy book Un Lun Dun - great book BTW - but when I got to the About the Author page at the end I was almost stunned to see the picture of China Mieville. Granted, he's a nice ... OOOHH!!! I just noticed Un Lun Dun hasn't been mentioned on this thread!!!
It's a really cute YA fantasy with a lot of clever wordplay a la The Phantom Tollbooth. It's definitely in the category of YA book that adults could enjoy and I highly recommend it!! :) ... Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley
(How's THAT for eclectic?)
Then we went to Borders and I just got a bunch of YA:
Un Lun Dun by Chin Mieville
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (which I started because of the chapter titles and I'm already 3/4 of ... ... Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley
(How's THAT for eclectic?)
Then we went to Borders and I just got a bunch of YA:
Un Lun Dun by Chin Mievill
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (which I started because of the chapter titles and I already LOVE this ... ... Saxons and Danes
"21: Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich - true story about Blackjack players from M.I.T.
"Un Lun Dun" by China Mieville - young adult fantasy
"The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson - business theory made fascinating
"You Suck" and "Bloodsucking Fiends" ... Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (who names their baby boy "China" anyway?) would be a fantasticly fun movie. I just started UN Lun Dun this morning. Pretty good stuff so far.
(and back to 177/178 RE: Sunshine - the lack of explanations in that book slayed me. It was like "hi I'm gonna throw in a bunch of stuff that you're majorly going to think is important and then never mention it again!" Grrrr.. ... ... reading books with each of them. With my 9-year-old, we've finished reading all the Junie B.'s and are now working on Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. It's a really cool book.
With my animal-loving 13-year-old I'm reading through the Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter. She LOVES ... I am currently reading Un Lun Dun, and am nearly finished.
Re: Inkheart, I felt much like many who've commented above. Overall, I really enjoyed it. But there's a good 100+ pages in the middle that could probably have been eliminated...or at least dramatically reduced. (I think what most ... ... mine:
Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein and Mysteriously Yours, Maggie both of those by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
The Dog that Stole Home by Matt Christopher
and
V for Vendetta : a novelization by Steve Moore
Most of them are books I'm reading ... #32 "Un Lun Dun" by China Mieville
A fat, substantial fantasy about London and its abcity UnLondon. This book has been compared to Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. I think it's most like the last of these, only much darker and more threatening.
There are ... ... buys IMO. I've heard great things about Emma Bull's Territory and I've yet to meet a teen who didn't like Miéville's Un Lun Dun. The Joanna Russ and S. T. Joshi non-fiction works have been on my wish list for a while.
Overall, a pretty intelligent and interesting list, I think. ... ... included at the end of the book. I really want to try some of them. And the lady who wrote it is an inspiration.
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I really liked Un Lun Dun. It was charming and creative and really very entertaining. I became totally involved with it as soon as De ... ... anthologies, 4 of the 6 reprint anthologies, 2 'bests' - what! is that a Joanna Russ book in there!) but I've only read Un Lun Dun which I enjoyed tremendously. Dukedom will have to speak for himself as to which of our stash he has already read. Having finished Un Lun Dun (loved it, BTW), I've now moved on to The New Weird and Winterbirth. I started Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. I was really excited, thinking it would be very Neverwhere-ish, but after the first six or so chapters I was bored. The story was still stuck in the "kids lost in a strange land and no one will give them any answers" phase, and it frankly sounded a bit ... I'm in the middle of Un Lun Dun and loving it; Mieville transitioned into young adult fiction very well.
#5 littlebookworm - I'm glad to hear someone else feels the same way about the Temeraire series. I don't dislike the books; but there's something missing in them for me. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, Theodora: Portrait in a Byzantine Landscape, and Un Lun Dun. I'm enjoying all of them. ... ntasy:
1. The Wicked Dayread
2. The Foxread
3. Senrid
4. Un Lun Dunread
5. First Truthread
6. Mistborn
7. Blood and Ironread
8. The Crow< ... 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. Un Lun Dun ... iction.
Dewey Decimated holds a special place in my heart for favorite title.
Did anyone else love the librarians in Un Lun Dun? ... Gormenghast, that's ambitious! For a wonderful Alice-in-Wonderland-Gormengast-like YA read, try China Mieville's Un Lun Dun. Great characters/creations and a fast-moving story (I liked in particular the man with a pincushion for a head and who wore books as clothes {so you always have ... ... dislike them either. They are certainly recognizably human, maybe too much so. Still, they are wonderful books. I enjoyed Un Lun Dun also, nice to know he can do 'whimsical' also! ... tastes - put it down; the main problem being the unlikability of the characters. But I've liked his stuff from King Rat -> Un Lun Dun 22. Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
A poor man's Neverwhere. I'll admit that I stopped reading after 115 pages.
I read several glowing reviews of this, saying it was going to rescue us in this, the time of no-more-harry-potter. And lookee! It has female protagonists! But no. A typical ... ... in them, it's pure, delicious fantasy (although instead of dragons and elves, he has steam-powered robots and robots. Wait! Un Lun Dun could be stretched to fit a magical-realist category in an Alice-in-Wonderland sort of way:-)
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and Un Lun Dun by China Mieville are YA urban fantasy too. I want to read Duchessina, Un Lun Dun, and Resurrection Men (by T.K. Welsh), but I'm waiting for them to come out in paperback. Un Lun Dun is a good book to keep you occupied. Funny and punny. ... they've put the YA section in with the adult books, away from the kids stuff and closer to the sci fi.
Thus far, Un Lun Dun is my favorite. I also liked Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier and Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale by Holly Black. ... as well as print publications...
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know was even better than What My Mother Doesn't Know Un Lun Dun was pretty awesome and probably up there for "best"...
I enjoyed Forever in Blue as well, but I'd only recomend it if you're already a fan of the Traveling P ... 'They're checking the headlines,' Obaday said.
Un Lun Dun / China Mieville 2007 ... will one day help construct a new addition, or add staff, to the fabulous Richland County Library!
I haven't read Un Lun Dun, but it sounds very similar to the Philip Pullman "His Dark Materials" trilogy, which I enjoyed very much. I usually encourage my now 16 year old to "vet" ... I have entered Un Lun Dun today.
I searched by the ISBN 9780230015869 against the National Library of Scotland and the book wasn't found. I then searched by title which brought back a record with the same ISBN as the previous search.
Is this a problem with the National Library of Scotland, ... ... get more authors in here to speak, but it's the big (and expensive) names that are the big draw.
Steal your copy of Un Lun Dun back and give it a read-- creepy or not, it's good. ... that are publishing in non-mainstream ways. Their website is here: http://www.myscww.org/.
My mother stole my copy of Un Lun Dun and read it first, but she said it was a little creepy, so YA sounds about right. ... crossed my mind when I noticed that >1 user's name was "truelove" which of course one pronounces as"trwoo woove" :-)
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville, it's newish in hardcover though ... the age group they are marketing it to). It's never perfect and there is always a range of readers. Take China Miéville's Un Lun Dun, for example. He wrote it for a teen audience but hoped his adult readers would also read it. We have, of course! and I suspect the book has a readership between ... ... recently (either for yourself or for your public library) that has been truly outstanding?
-Anyone out there read Un Lun Dun? (I recommend it if you haven't). Our library has it classified as an adult book. I personally think it's more of a YA, but I know some libraries have it as ... In China Miéville's Un Lun Dun there is a brief cameo appearance of an "extreme librarian" who scales the shelf face of books (these are miles(?) high) procuring the books asked for...I forget her name. I just finished Kitchen which is not YA at all. On the YA front, I have Un Lun Dun waiting for me and I'm also hoping to get to Chicks with Sticks this month. China Miéville's new YA novel, Un Lun Dun might also be a good choice. "London below" is magical in an Oz or Wonderland way. I loved it, as did my husband. 4 copies, signed, of China Miéville's Un Lun Dun, one for us, one for my daughter who is a 6th grade teacher, one for the school where she teaches, and one spare, perhaps for a niece...
... hours and grumbled alot so as to discourage anyone from actually buying anything.
In China Miéville's new novel, Un Lun Dun, there is a towering columnar (roofless?) library worked or scaled (like rock climbers) by "extreme librarians" a.k.a. "bookaneers".
My top YA book is also yet to be published. It is Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. It's a Alice-in-Wonderland type tale of two girls who find their way to an alternate London and soon find that they must help these people conquer a certain menace. The city is a wonderfully strange world where there ... Finishing up the forthcoming Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. Have very much enjoyed it, though maybe a bit long. Apparently a YA crossover... a la Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake....one has to appreciate Mieville's imagination! ... on. I've been a bookseller for over 9 years at a moderately large independent bookstore. I'm reading China Mieville's Un Lun Dun at the moment (delicious Alice-in-Wonderland-like YA/Adult crossover). Just finished The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (a departure from his mystery/thri ...
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