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Kraken
by China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
by China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
Elizabeth's review
bookshelves: npr, thrillers
Oct 13, 10
bookshelves: npr, thrillers
Read from September 04 to October 10, 2010
** spoiler alert **
As seen on npr.org.
After all, who can resist a squidnapping?
[Updated 10/13/10, after finishing reading it.]
When Goss and Subby showed up, this book took a turn toward the seriously weird, and it only got weirder in the next chapter when we met the Tattoo. Imagine my sincere disappointment, then, when the ultimate denouement didn't even require Goss and Subby and the Tattoo: it was all there from the beginning.
I had a Lolita-like moment when one character asks another whether he's on lolcats ("I can has squid back?"): it made me wonder what other cultural references I was completely missing. So it's possible that the novel's incoherence results (in part) from my own ignorance.
Also, this novel appears to take place in an alternate universe in which "alright" is a word.
After all, who can resist a squidnapping?
[Updated 10/13/10, after finishing reading it.]
When Goss and Subby showed up, this book took a turn toward the seriously weird, and it only got weirder in the next chapter when we met the Tattoo. Imagine my sincere disappointment, then, when the ultimate denouement didn't even require Goss and Subby and the Tattoo: it was all there from the beginning.
I had a Lolita-like moment when one character asks another whether he's on lolcats ("I can has squid back?"): it made me wonder what other cultural references I was completely missing. So it's possible that the novel's incoherence results (in part) from my own ignorance.
Also, this novel appears to take place in an alternate universe in which "alright" is a word.
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An amazing cast of characters and a richly imagined setting.