Read it these past few days and loved it, despite being surprised that I was loving it. There's so much that should have annoyed me: Mieville's tendency to dump exposition in a tedious and condescending narrator voice, his shabby grasp of exotic words he's throwing around more for feel than content, the chilly friendship between Dane and Billy we're supposed to believe is life-changing... I loved it anyway. The mystery was great and compelling and as you say, guessable but still interesting.
Though for the record: Shadchan does not mean what Mieville apparently wants it to mean.
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Date: 2011-01-12 19:41 (UTC)Though for the record: Shadchan does not mean what Mieville apparently wants it to mean.