{"id":20755,"date":"2012-03-22T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2012\/03\/review-kraken\/20755"},"modified":"2012-03-22T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:00:45","slug":"review-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2012\/03\/20755\/review-kraken\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kraken\"<\/a>
\nKraken<\/a> by China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

This kind of SMOOSHES them together. Which is ideal really.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally published at half girl, half robot<\/a>. You can comment here or there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Link to the original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kraken by China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville My rating: 5 of 5 stars 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 … Continue reading Review: Kraken<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reblogged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}