China Mieville: Perdido Street Station - large and inventive book set in Anhk-Morpork-but-for-real, well-paced and terrifying and packed full of ideas (not all of them his, but all of them slightly nervous in each other's company) Ben Marcus: Notable American Women - mental claustrophobic book about a matriarchal cult who practice using words to kill, I have already made this sound too coherent. R.F. Laird: The Boomer Bible - the garbled and obscene history of the whole world told by a gang of Philidelphia punks for whom everything in the past has happened more or less at the same time. Intensely cross referenced, because every joke is improved by repetition.
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Date: 2007-10-02 03:48 pm (UTC)Ben Marcus: Notable American Women - mental claustrophobic book about a matriarchal cult who practice using words to kill, I have already made this sound too coherent.
R.F. Laird: The Boomer Bible - the garbled and obscene history of the whole world told by a gang of Philidelphia punks for whom everything in the past has happened more or less at the same time. Intensely cross referenced, because every joke is improved by repetition.