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Inlander:
I haven't read any of his stuff yet, but for what it's worth after hearing him talk at the recent Melbourne Writers Festival I'm pretty certain he's a Fucking Awesome Dude.
Tom:
--- Quote from: Theriandros on 24 Sep 2010, 14:10 ---Is it just me, or is China Mieville really overrated?
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In his own words:
--- Quote ---I’m not a leftist trying to smuggle in my evil message by the nefarious means of fantasy novels. I’m a science fiction and fantasy geek. I love this stuff. And when I write my novels, I’m not writing them to make political points. I’m writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I’m creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have... I’m trying to say I’ve invented this world that I think is really cool and I have these really big stories to tell in it and one of the ways that I find to make that interesting is to think about it politically. If you want to do that too, that’s fantastic. But if not, isn’t this a cool monster?
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tl:dr? It's just you, buddy.
Inlander:
That doesn't answer the question of whether he's a good writer, though. I'm in the middle of the City and the City at the moment, and I'm enjoying it well enough, but it's not rocking my world and there are some sentences that I think should obviously have been rewritten. On the other hand, when I heard him speak at the recent Melbourne Writers Festival as part of a panel about politics in fiction, he was absolutely outstanding and inspiring and exciting.
Tom:
Post was directed a little more at our Libertarian in residence, Harry.
jackmort:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 16 Mar 2010, 10:28 ---
Speaking of Stephan King: I highly recommend the movie 1408 .... For starters, it's actually scary, something most horror movies have not been able to be for the last 15 or 20 years .... John Cusack is amazing
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My favourite thing about the film is the way john cusack reacts to what's going on, because most people, when faced with a malevolent spirit, would shit hard, but cusack basically calls the ghost a dick and tries to kick its face :)
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