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This is fantasy that transcends the designation and attracts those not yet initiated into the genre. Mieville is always inventive, his voice urgent, and his imagined worlds far from our own yet reflections on our own.
This novel is an impressive debut that is a stunning complement to devastating mountain top removal mining practices. It is as faithful to the complexity of the environmental and economic issues as it is to the complexity of narrative voice. It's the book that this urgent issue and contemporary fiction need.
A very accessible introduction to what's also known as 'global capitalism' or, in some part, 'globalization.' Harvey argues that neoliberalism's main effect and perhaps even deliberate aim is class warfare of a new type. It's an improbably page-turner, perhaps because it makes so much else make disturbing sense.
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A startling novel about a boy on whom Somalia's history is inscribed and through whom it's refracted. Beautiful and unafraid. It also illuminates the civil war in Somalia that led to the US's involvement in the 1990s, a war about which most Americans probably know little.
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Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
h, September 22, 2011
This is fantasy that transcends the designation and attracts those not yet initiated into the genre. Mieville is always inventive, his voice urgent, and his imagined worlds far from our own yet reflections on our own.Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
h, July 21, 2011
This novel is an impressive debut that is a stunning complement to devastating mountain top removal mining practices. It is as faithful to the complexity of the environmental and economic issues as it is to the complexity of narrative voice. It's the book that this urgent issue and contemporary fiction need.A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
h, November 25, 2007
A very accessible introduction to what's also known as 'global capitalism' or, in some part, 'globalization.' Harvey argues that neoliberalism's main effect and perhaps even deliberate aim is class warfare of a new type. It's an improbably page-turner, perhaps because it makes so much else make disturbing sense.(10 of 18 readers found this comment helpful)
Maps by Nuruddin Farah
h, April 20, 2007
A startling novel about a boy on whom Somalia's history is inscribed and through whom it's refracted. Beautiful and unafraid. It also illuminates the civil war in Somalia that led to the US's involvement in the 1990s, a war about which most Americans probably know little.(6 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)