Comments on: Municipal Darwinism

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:38:12 +0000

I read the quartet simply because of the opening to the 1st book. Fanstatic, such imagination it sparks…brilliance. Deserves any award it got.

Although i do agree that PredGold did seem a poor relation to the magnificant opening gambit of MortEng BUT i liken to the relationship bewteen Empire Strikes back and Episodes 4 and 6, in it’s lame and scene setting. PredGold simply explored another aspect of the world, namely ice wasteland.

The ending was brilliant though. Instead of everyone going out with a bang and the hero(es) winning/saving the day, Reev brilliant stayed to form and carried it off beautifully. Shrikes presence at that moment was monumental.

Writing this comment now makes me want to pick the books up and read them all again. Hopefully a film(s) will come of this, but the investment will have to be Lord/Rings scale just so you can visualize such scenes as the Gut and Medusa….now where are those books….work?…sod that…for now anyway LOL

By: Eoin Purcell

Eoin Purcell — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:30:22 +0000

Well made points on book two but as a whole the quartet is startlingly good.
When you consider books that have sold so much better it really is enough to make you wonder . . .
Great review!
Eoin

By: Adrian Hon

Adrian Hon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:37:30 +0000

You have said it before, and I will definitely have to check it out :)

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:00:23 +0000

Said it before, will say it again – if you like unsentimental children’s fiction set in a dystopic London (and no happy ending) then you have to find an early edition of The Borribles by Michael de Larrabeiti. The recent reprint has some bizarre edits to it and the second and third books, while good, weren’t strictly necessary – but the first one was, for me, quite literally life-changing.

Thanks for the tip about Reeve – will check him out.