I avoid book reviews and incantatory is very much how I'm experiencing #TheRouse

Well, I've given it my best efforts. Really, I have, but #TheRouse is going to have to remain unread by me. It's just too dense.

I’m only 107 pages (out of 1240) into #therouse, but thoroughly enjoying the thing that happens in all my favorite China Miéville books: His vocabulary is just better than mine, so I end up stopping far more often than usual to look up new words. But his *taste* in vocabulary is extremely […]

What the fuck? #therouse

Mine for less than a week and I'm more than a third through the moreish #TheRouse by China Miéville. So enthralling I'm reading before work!

Young Frankie likes big books and he cannot lie, #TheRouse by #ChinaMieville is a mountain he’s keen to climb. The audiobook alone (non-stop) would take you nearly 3½ days!

China Miéville's The Rouse: 1,264 pages, twenty years' work, a ghost story that raises the century's dead. Formidable, flawed, worth the march. Our four-star review: [link] #TheRouse

https://gnofhorror.com/the-rouse-by-china-mieville-review/

#TheRouse by #ChinaMiéville #BookReview – a mighty achievement from the ‘new weird’ author

Twenty years in the writing, this paranormal epic of cold war espionage and family tragedy is a quantum leap in terms of ambition and moral seriousness

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www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...