> I think Iron Council is close to ruined by his
> heavy-handed use of political symbolism. "It's the
> Iron Council. Council = Soviet. Get it?" "They come
> back to the city on a train -- just like Lenin did!
> Get it" "The Council was, the Council is, the Council
> will be -- just like Lenin! Get it?" I was groaning.
>
> I really liked the first two Bas-Lag books though.
>
> --- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
>
>> I'll try to respond to this with slightly less
>> irritability. Personally I
>> think that Mieville's politics are what make his
>> books so enjoyable. I'm
>> not sure that you would get the complex dynamics of
>> the city without his
>> engagement with Marxism. On the other hand, the
>> Iron Council is
>> impoverished by his insistence of reading
>> revolutionary struggle in terms
>> of the 1905 revolt, rather than imagining a future
>> mode of struggle (a la
>> the Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy) robert wood
>>
>
> Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
>
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>
>
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