I have read and enjoyed both PSS and The Scar, though I can definitely see where people are coming from with regard to Mi?ville being messy and in need of a better editor. I recently read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and was interested to see that the idea of 'Armada' had very likely been lifted from Stephenson's description of the Raft, with some gothic embellishments admittedly. Just thought this was worth poitning out given the comments regarding Mi?ville borrowing ideas from other authors...
Tom
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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:33:46 -0500
From: "Alice K. Turner" <aturner6 at nyc.rr.com>
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Ah, but I read The Scar first, then went back to PSS. Which makes me completely agree with Dan'l about grotesquerie and the "wow" factor being only good for one book. We simply started with different books. Though I still applaud the Armada as a visual concept.
-alga