Review: Kraken

March 22, 2012 herdivineshadow

I love books that deal with religions. Especially made up ones. I love books that deal with the whole world within a world/city within a city/otherside/invisible reality trope.

This kind of SMOOSHES them together. Which is ideal really.

I did read a few reviews where Mieville is accused of sticking in too many made up words and that making it harder to understand. I didn’t get that at all. If you need a word or term for something and there isn’t one, then make it up. At lease he draws on existing language to actually make the new terms make sense.

Although that might just be me, as I learnt a good deal of the vocabulary I possess by figuring out what words meant in context. It’s a pain in the next when I actually have to explain something to my mum, but it does come in handy with crosswords.

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Stories of Arda – Author: Madeleine – Lord of the Rings Fan-Fiction Archive –
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Universal Scrobbler –
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Listen: At SXSW, Bruce Springsteen On The Meaning Of Music : The Record : NPR –
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The Mu | The Folding Plug –
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The Body Counter – By Tina Rosenberg | Foreign Policy – On March 13, 2002, in a courtroom in The Hague, something different happened. In the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, Patrick Ball, an American statistician, presented numbers to support the case that Milosevic had pursued a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing. "We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that Yugoslav forces forced people from their homes, forced Albanian Kosovars from their homes, and killed people," Ball said.
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March 21, 2012 herdivineshadow

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	Shared 3 books.
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	Shared the days to come, the days I can’t have. I’m giving you my….
	Published "NHS staff numbers in England have seen their biggest drop in a decade with nursing posts among those…".
	Shared wanderlustlover: cinderellainrubbershoes: (compiled by Pamela….
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	Liked Kiss You Better – Maxïmo Park.

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March 21, 2012 herdivineshadow

@wanderlustlover It's basically a giant ZOMG O_O_O in reply to wanderlustlover ->
@wanderlustlover @laharcourt You have to admit that it makes his professional life a lot easier, even if it screws his personal life… in reply to wanderlustlover ->
@wanderlustlover HAL. TOM. ANNIE. EVERYONE. ALSO, omg in reply to wanderlustlover ->
@laharcourt @wanderlustlover Heh. Guy mostly wants to know why the easy way out is always the evil one. in reply to laharcourt ->
@wanderlustlover @laharcourt That is a bit of an obstacle…:) in reply to wanderlustlover ->
And now, off out to start the journey to uni. Could do with more hours in the day really. ->
BBC News – NHS bill: Labour force emergency debate on risk register http://t.co/SoCdItFZ ->
@JamesHunt @RellyAB Haha. Sorry about that. I went a bit click happy on Klout in reply to JamesHunt ->
Why yes, of course it makes sense to make printed material available to collect AFTER lectures have finished. Grr. ->
@understood Stupid government in reply to understood ->
@understood I'd vote for them especially if they got you in to translate stuff into easy to understand English in reply to understood ->
on the plus side, i spotted someone watching being human in the lab ->

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March 20, 2012 herdivineshadow

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March 20, 2012 herdivineshadow

@wanderlustlover that's probably 'cos i've been going to bed early in yr place in reply to wanderlustlover ->
So. Instead of chilling with my mum… I have choir practice. ->
@rebeccasbrain O_o Did servers fall over or something? I just got back from Mother's Day dinner. in reply to rebeccasbrain ->
@mrtonylee I preferred this one, mostly because I hated the character of Christine in the original. I'll admit that the Girys were a bit O_o in reply to mrtonylee ->
@oftenimprudent Does this mean he and Molly will get it on at some point in Sherlock? in reply to oftenimprudent ->
@nikki @sebpatrick @OurJosephine O_O When is this? in reply to nikki ->
@eoincmacken Shakespeare Retold did it well, but Luhrman's R&J basically ripped out Paris' heart which totally put me off. in reply to eoincmacken ->

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March 19, 2012 herdivineshadow

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	Published I think if you spend hours a day posting stuff about a band, you should get to meet them.
	Published jetgirl78: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…..
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	Published "The problem isn’t just that we have to get folks to buy [Captain Marvel]; it’s that we have to get…".
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March 19, 2012 herdivineshadow

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March 19, 2012 herdivineshadow

How do I always manage to arrange everything so that my weekend is uber-busy when I already know Monday is full? ->
@grrlinterrupted I still can't stop thinking of him as Papa Kirk in reply to grrlinterrupted ->
According to @klout, I'm influential about Romeo, Eurovision Song Contest, and Vanilla http://t.co/98lVp8A8 ->
Haha. I'm also apparently influential about Bacon. WIN. ->
@bbcbeinghuman @bbc3tv Penultimate? OH GOD. DON'T REMIND ME. I was living in a bubble where #beinghuman is on every Sunday forever… in reply to bbcbeinghuman ->
“Letters From The Sky” by Civil Twilight is my new jam. ♫ http://t.co/G5J67gAx ->
♥ Ill Manors by Plan B #lastfm: http://t.co/e1dxtRLP ->
since i know i won't be awake before my mum tomorrow, i've left her card & pressie where she'll see it. ->
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March 18, 2012 herdivineshadow

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	Published shoukuriimu: “Jealous?” xD.
	Liked Ill Manors – Plan B.
	Published inothernews: NUMBER ONE..
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