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Glyn Morgan (Grmorgan)
Username: Grmorgan

Registered: 01-2011
Posted From: 77.101.91.125
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 10:55 am:   

In addition to "The Killer Inside You" mentioned in a previous thread, we've just had it confirmed that we'll be hosting a book launch for China Miéville, promoting his latest release Embassytown. At least one review has referred to it as being written with "disturbing and stylistic flair" remarking that it "combines planetary science-fiction with colonial novel, lingual exploration with zombie apocalypse." If that's not worth clearing your diary for, what is?!

As ever, full details on the blog:
http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-event-twisted-tales-hosts-chi na.html}
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 11:18 am:   

Ooooohhhh!!!! I think I may have to drag myself to Liverpool for that one. I love Meiville's stuff. Friday 13th though? Good thing I'm not superstitious. touch wood.
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.175
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 01:01 pm:   

I have it on preorder. I hope that the prose quality is more like the fascinating "The City and the City" rather than Kraken, which I thought was undigestible rubbish.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.46
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 02:04 pm:   

Kraken were great!

That's my succinct review of the book.
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 88.104.130.94
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 02:48 pm:   

I enjoyed my visit in January to hear Joel, Alison Littlewood and Conrad Williams read. Wishing you well with this event too, Glyn!
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Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer)
Username: Matthew_fryer

Registered: 08-2009
Posted From: 90.195.182.189
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 03:19 pm:   

Wish I could be there. Hope it goes well, Glyn.

I adore China Mieville's Bas-Lag trilogy, in fact it's one of my all-time faves, but strangely I find his short stories very difficult to read.
Haven't got round to Kraken or "The City and the City" yet.
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.175
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 03:23 pm:   

What I hated in Kraken was that everything was possible, and because of that after a while I didn't experience any suspense at all, knowing that whenever the hero would be in a tight spot, something very far fetched would happen.

The prose style also irritated me somewhat.

I did like the feisty female police inspector character (her name escapes me now), but I hated the story. I persevered until around two thirds of the book and then I gave up.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 82.210.134.81
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 03:44 pm:   

I bet the minute I move back to Rainford next year, forty minutes away from Liverpool, all of these readings so close to home will stop. Be my bleeding luck (:
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Glyn Morgan (Grmorgan)
Username: Grmorgan

Registered: 01-2011
Posted From: 77.101.91.125
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 12:59 pm:   

Not if I have any say about it Frank!
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.43
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 01:00 pm:   

Just keep Frank's name on the banned list...
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 01:54 pm:   

Hahahah...Weber knows me so well (:

Glyn - good stuff, mate. I will be attending once I hit Blighty in 2012 Feb. Looking forward to a 'tasy roster' of high calibre writers.
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 08:39 pm:   

KRAKEN is the only one of his novels I've read so far. I share Tom's thoughts on it - some good characters, but the plot was an unfocused mess, and the prose was greatly irritating. Friends have told me that it's a bit of an oddity in his bibilography, though, and a flick through the other novels seems to support that. THE CITY AND THE CITY is sitting on my Kindle, so I expect I'll give it a go at some point.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.147.136.184
Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2011 - 03:24 pm:   

For those who couldn't make the event on Friday, he's in Waterstone Deansgate in Manchester tomorrow night!!!!
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.45
Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 - 01:53 pm:   

Bugger it! I brought all my China Meiville books to work with me today so I could go straight to the event this evening when I leave. Just realised I forgot my PS edition of The Tain.

I don't know if I should go home to pick it up or not. Something in the back of my mind is telling me that it was a signed copy when I bought it. But i'm not sure...

Can anyone confirm if The Tain was released by PS as a signed edition?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 - 02:46 pm:   

Sorry, Weber, I just tried looking for it on the PS site to check for you (I guess you can't access it yourself from work?) and I can't find it. I don't have it myself so I don't know if it was signed or not. Hopefully someone else will be along soon who can tell you.

Enjoy yourself tonight!
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.43
Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 - 05:43 pm:   

did an interweb search and it does seem to be listed on a few sites as signed limited. I'll trust to that and go straight into town after work in an hour.

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