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The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
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bookshelves: alternate-reality, culture-conflict, displacement, favorite, existential-crises, language-thought-reality, social-commentary, travel
Apr 10, 2011
bookshelves: alternate-reality, culture-conflict, displacement, favorite, existential-crises, language-thought-reality, social-commentary, travel
Would I have found this book quite as compelling and all encompasing if I had not been clinging to it for the whole time since I left my own home one month ago. Well, of course, this a complex and thrilling read, on many levels. The beginning and the ending will occupy my my thoughts for some time I am sure.Being on a timed computer does not exactly help my eloquence, but like Bellis I have been abrubtly been ejected from my home, as much as I disliked what was happening there. Unlike Bellis, I had some choice about my destination, and I feel more like I have come home and that Vancouver was exile.And most likely I would have embraced Armada from the start. But Bellis stays true to herself, however much she questions the possibility of knowing what that truth might be.
In all probability, the timer is going to go off before I get this all out, so just to say, for now, I can add one thing to Meivilles exhaustive definitionn of scar: scars make the body more interesting. Anyone know who wrote that? A poetry book from the 80´s I seem to remember. A fracture in the body of the world,that left a scar, thought to be a mine of possibilities. The idea of all possibilities coexisting until the second that reality displaces all but what in fact occurs.
In all probability, the timer is going to go off before I get this all out, so just to say, for now, I can add one thing to Meivilles exhaustive definitionn of scar: scars make the body more interesting. Anyone know who wrote that? A poetry book from the 80´s I seem to remember. A fracture in the body of the world,that left a scar, thought to be a mine of possibilities. The idea of all possibilities coexisting until the second that reality displaces all but what in fact occurs.
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Reading Progress
April 10, 2011
– Shelved
October 8, 2012
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Started Reading
October 14, 2012
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56.75%
"totally immersed in this book when I get the chance.what a work of scifi geñius"
page
328
October 22, 2012
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74.05%
"Estella,the city where I am lingering now, is a very Mievillian kind of place. Even the main square here is round and one street curves around another, with sudden glimpses of magnificant old palaces or maybe this road ends at the river. More like Armada tha New C, methinks"
page
428
October 29, 2012
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Finished Reading
October 31, 2012
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alternate-reality
October 31, 2012
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existential-crises
October 31, 2012
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culture-conflict
October 31, 2012
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displacement
October 31, 2012
– Shelved as:
favorite
October 31, 2012
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language-thought-reality
October 31, 2012
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social-commentary
October 31, 2012
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travel