Well I think I am giving up on the new China Mieville book, The Rouse. I’m 200 pages in, nothing of consequence has happened, the writing is no better than I could do myself and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere; it’s not like his other books and it’s also 1200 pages long.

It is not boring, exactly. It is just pointless. Whatever audience it’s for, it’s not for me.