Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:35:26 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Mieville . . . Peake?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>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