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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Finished China Miéville's Railsea -- an imaginative, but shallow, recasting of Moby Dick in a dystopian future world. The restaging of the hunt on land for giant subterranean creatures, and from a train, is a brilliant morphing of the classic sea tale of obsession and vengeance, but the book was WAY too short, with no real character development. It would require a book the size and complexity of Iron Council to fully realize the potential for this new vision.
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I was surprised to find out that
Railsea is considered by many to be "YA". I don't ever really remember it beng billed that way when it was released, but it definitely caused me to shy away from it. Not that I don't ever read YA. I just wasn't interested in any
Mieville YA at that time.
I'm currently about halfway through Lila Bowen's
Wake of Vultures. The first book in a Weird Western series. A fun change of pace.