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Regardless of your views about the Miners' Strike, this magnificent Radio Ballad stands as a remembrance of the most turbulent period in recent British life. It is told without commentary by the voices of the participants interspersed with specially commissioned songs.
All of the New Radio Ballads are worth listening to and all yield treasures on repeated listens. Of the seven made this one, though, is in the first rank and is unhesitatingly recommended.
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Although Kraken is full of playful inventiveness in the end I found this to be a disappointing read. As other reviewers have pointed out it wears its influences on its sleeve - especially Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and, to a lesser degree, American Gods. I can live with that but I also thought that the book was 50 to 75 pages too long and sagged under the weight of its own (self-conscious?)inventiveness. Mieville also has a peculiar way sometimes with his grammar and syntax which can leave me scratching my head and going over paragraphs two or three times to work out what is going on.
The ending was entertaining if a little cliched but I suppose that if you are going to make… Read more
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
This is an excellent and entertaining wee book, however buyers should be warned that it is an amalgamation of Thorburn's "Men and Sheds" and Jones' "Shed Men" so don't buy all three as I did!
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