tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13573225.post7692170449891098648..comments2021-09-30T10:14:50.139-04:00Comments on Brown Study: China Mieville: The City and the CitySelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16303596216112203977noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13573225.post-84774070430991980282010-08-19T22:16:24.880-04:002010-08-19T22:16:24.880-04:00I'm glad you enjoyed it too. I want to read mo...I'm glad you enjoyed it too. I want to read more of his. I can't decide whether to go to the brand new one (Kraken) or go back a bit. Perdido Street Station looks good too.<br /><br />Good points about our ways of "unseeing" what we don't feel comfortable with -- that's certainly true.Selenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303596216112203977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13573225.post-37736296632501285732010-08-19T19:18:07.798-04:002010-08-19T19:18:07.798-04:00Read this thanks to your recommendation -- very co...Read this thanks to your recommendation -- very cool, very impressive, just as you said! I was really interested in the idea of unseeing -- how we do this in our own cities. When I lived in Manhattan, it was the same kind of division, only between classes -- what do we do so often, after all, but unsee the homeless? I also think that in some ways we have an analogous situation with race.<br /><br />As with all really good books, I found myself thinking like the characters a little, and once or twice I caught myself wondering if I should be unseeing a car, or a building, or worried about Breach :)<br /><br />Thanks for the recommendation -- I'm moving on to another you recommended soon (Big Little)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11334684290869790826noreply@blogger.com