Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Let Me Take You Down: Perdido Street Station / China Miéville


Steampunk gothic horror; the screaming clank of dark iron machinery; birds who are men; cacti who are men; beetles who are men; men who have been remade into creatures of horror. Welcome to Perdido Street Station. How will you sleep at night?

Sunday, 8 May 2011

Norman Mailer's An American Dream


Controversial, sexist, vicious, brutal, melancholic. Forty-six years old, it still punches hard.