How list works and questions to mailers

Russ Allbery · 13 May 2008, 05:02 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: rra at stanford.edu (Russ Allbery)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:02:08 -0700
Subject: (urth) How list works and questions to mailers
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brunians at brunians.org writes:

> I did not like Iron Council and it has left me with a prejudice against
> Mieville.

Iron Council is by general consensus not the high point of that series.  I
liked both Perdido Street Station and The Scar in different ways.  The
Scar is the better book, but Perdido Street Station has some *amazing*
descriptions.  Iron Council was much more explicitly political (Mieville
has a doctorate in international relations from the London School of
Economics and is a Trotskyist), so if the politics of Bas Lag aren't your
thing, it's probably not going to be your thing.  But don't let that turn
you off on his other stuff, some of which is really quite good even if you
can't stand his politics at all.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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