Huh! I just learned two things. When an author uses a 'descriptive' name for a character, there's a term for that: aptronym, probably coined in the 1930s by newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams. There's also a phrase for when a person has a name which relates to their chosen profession: nominative ...
Nobody can build a world better than China Miéville. Plus his creativity knows no bounds. This is one of the most literary YA books I’ve ever read. I can just imagine a 12 year old stumbling over words like rumbustious. Actually there’s debate over whether or not this belongs in the YA category but ...
The whale is a moldeywarpe, the ocean is an endless expanse of rail and Captain Ahab is gender switched and anagrammed to become Abacat Naphi. Once again, Mieville delivers an outstanding tale- this time in a re-imagined version of Moby Dick. A tribute to the near anagrammed Melville.However, this...
Via LectusI had read about how great this book is and how Mieville got inspired on Moby-Dick to write it that I thought I was actually going to enjoy it. But nope this one went to the list of ‘abandoned’ books that I won’t pick up again.Sham Yes ap Soorap travels with a crazy captain who is obsess h...
Thank you, China Miéville. Thank you. Thank you! In the last week & a half, full of 14-hour work days, lack of sleep, physical & mental exhaustion & near-constant feeling of overwhelmed inadequacy CM provided me with the sanctuary of a few precious hours when none of that mattered, when I was comp...
Trains aren't nice. I'm not sure the book gets that. In the pre-finial epilogue of chapter 84:you can drive, & if you wish, go elsewhere on the way.But this is to miss, to my mind, the point of the train. Ships (and cars) are images of freedom, of potential, adventure and exploration. But on a train...
I was conflicted when I heard this was "a gripping and brilliantly imagined take on ... [b:Moby Dick|153747|Moby-Dick|Herman Melville|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327940656s/153747.jpg|2409320]" (so it says on the cover blurb). On the one hand, Miéville at his best is one of the best writers on the...
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