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I have started Iron Council by China Miéville twice and keep getting confused as to what is going on and who is who
To be honest that is not the problrm for me. I just find it a strange book to read, and Mieville's works rank up there at about 9.5 on the "Weird Shit" scale normally. I am starting to get into it now but that is at page 150 odd. His other Bas Lag books had me hooked right away and having heard him read a small part of his forthcoming book Embassytown I am quite hopefull.
Have you tried Perdido Street Station and The Scar? The first two books in the series, and bloody good reads. Or even The City And The City (which hits 10 on the weird shit scale)?
Who's Afraid of Beowulf
Flying Dutch - it's the story about the Marie Celeste and why the crew come ashore once every 7 years.
Just started Who's Afraid of Beowulf, and got Flying Dutch in the wings
Both are good, Flying Dutch is funny well at least I liked it one of my favorites by the Holt. 
Timescape by Gregory Benford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape
My memory is getting worse, just finished Practical Demonkeeping by someone I forgot but twas a good wee laugh and still on Born Free at work.
Christopher Moore that was his 1st one so I have not included it in the list.
Bite Me
A Love Story.
Part Three of the Vampire Trilogy. Coming 3/23/2010 in the US. More...
Fool
"This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that's the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!" More...
You Suck
A Love Story
If you're looking for San Francisco scenery, hot vampire sex (similar to hot monkey sex, but hotter), giant shaven cats, the Cheddar Princess of Fond du Lac, and the Fighting Beatniks of Allen Ginsberg High School -- four words: YOU SUCK. It doesn't. More...
A Dirty Job
A Novel
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.
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The Stupidest Angel
A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit.
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Fluke
Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Just why do humpback whales sing? Thats the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. More...
Lamb
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiahs best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer). More...
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally -- well, to be accurate, artificially -- business is booming at the local blues bar. More...
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise -- a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guys body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. More...
Bloodsucking Fiends
Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. More...
Coyote Blue
As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. More...
Bite Me
A Love Story.
Part Three of the Vampire Trilogy. Coming 3/23/2010 in the US. More...
Fool
"This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that's the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!" More...
You Suck
A Love Story
If you're looking for San Francisco scenery, hot vampire sex (similar to hot monkey sex, but hotter), giant shaven cats, the Cheddar Princess of Fond du Lac, and the Fighting Beatniks of Allen Ginsberg High School -- four words: YOU SUCK. It doesn't. More...
A Dirty Job
A Novel
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.
More...
The Stupidest Angel
A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit.
More...
Fluke
Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Just why do humpback whales sing? Thats the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. More...
Lamb
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiahs best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer). More...
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally -- well, to be accurate, artificially -- business is booming at the local blues bar. More...
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise -- a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guys body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. More...
Bloodsucking Fiends
Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. More...
Coyote Blue
As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. More...
Gormenghast
Gormenghast
Good choice sir. Love a bit or Mervyn Peake.
Gormenghast
Excellent books, although they can be hard work at first but once you immerse yourself its easy to become lost within Peakes surreal world.
Finally getting round to reading Matter by Iain M.Banks after an extended Jasper Fforde interlude.
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