interesting take, squidbrains, and maybe your point about materialism shows up over the course of mieville's works,* but i don't see it as being the overarching idea behind the novel and find myself agreeing with nearly every point that loki made in his/her comments (yeah, what was the deal with the gunherders? why…

i think pkd handled this best in "the second variety"

i read it, too, and i have to assume you're a troll. "the moby dick of vampire fiction"? fuck you.

i'm glad you read it, scotus, if only to verify what i know to be true. sorry it had to be this way.

okay, finished it, color me not-that-impressed. there are tons of cool ideas (all the different churches and opposing eschatologies- i would love a field guide on them) and neat details (the little london antibodies, the many forms of familiars) but, like DG said, i was constantly wondering when i was going to really…

i doubt it. apparently jerry garcia had the film rights to ubik, though.

prince was a baller, so he HAD to hate on grove street.

mogwai, "punk rock"
i know it's just a sample from an iggy pop interview, but i think it fits pretty well.

what release was that? if it was anything after "they spent their…" it deserved a negative review.

sabbath?

the real low-blow, farmer john, is that it was directed by fucking john woo.

thumbs down for pearl.

i feel you, man- the non-movie version is no longer in print. it's doubly heinous since they reprinted all of his books with the same style covers so recently.

mea culpa; i missed a bunch of the earlier stuff

@tristiac- fair enough. seen paycheck? that's one of the worst pieces of trash i've come across outside of an mst3000 episode.

i was wondering when you were gonna pop up.

yes!

i know this'll start a nerd war, but blade runner wasn't as good of an adaptation as ASD. the ASD movie is missing a lot of arctor's interior monologue and therefore lacks the book's subtlety, but otherwise gets the book's point pretty accurately. blade runner, while a great film, leaves out probably two-thirds of the…

sounds like there's a little….
(puts glasses on)

did you try connecting the dots?
or asking jambi?