Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:07:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Mieville . . . Peake?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Actually, I think Mieville's editor is the one on
drugs.  How else could he allow Perdido Street Station
to be released at 749 pages?!  The book doesn't start
to get interesting (imho) until around page 330.

--cathy
--- Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> >I agree with Mike on Ms. McCaffrey, and add that it
> was a whale shark =
> (which
> >run as large as a school bus). I'm reading
> Mieville's "Perdido Street
> >Station" and having trouble with it. He writes like
> Mervyn Peake on =
> impure
> >street drugs.
>
> The Washington Post quote on the back of The Scar
> does compare him to =
> Peake; which is not to everyones taste.  No mention
> of drugs.
>
> mjw
>
> >
> >Well, that's my review for the day!
> >
> >Erica
>

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