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Title: Dark and enjoyable!
Review: Excellent collection of stories. This is my first exposure to Mieville's work, and I'm very impressed. These are not "light" stories; they require your full attention while reading them, or you will miss something. Some of them are somewhat uncomfortable, and a couple of them made me look at some pretty commonplace things in a whole new light! Only 4 stars because there were a few places in some of the stories that I felt the author was being intentionally tortuous in order to hide the twist that came at the end.
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