The first 200-odd pages of this book were pretty bad. On the other hand, the final part is great. If you really liked The Three-Body Problem, I recommend giving it a shot (Death's End is pretty good just over 100 pages in, too).

If only, mate, if only.

Pretty good. A little blunt at times but it's a solid premise and well written in pretty much every other way.

"Time works it's insulting wizardry on everything that breathes, fixed or free, but Oxford never changes."

Can't help but feel that there are other, more pressing reasons not to do that, mate.

Can't help but think someone is trying to make Miéville's surrealist urban fantasy novel look or sound literary rather than fantasy.

A very fun, quick listen. I know of Kaling via The Mindy Project rather than The Office so it was fun to hear her future predictions and be amused by their accuracy (and a little sad about that one thing she was really wrong about). I will have to hunt down those Blackberry photos though, I guess.

Philip K. Dick, of all people, recognising and sneering at the pay-gap.

"If mockery were the only antidote to his malady, he was palpably better off as he stood."

It's been a while since I read a PKD novel. I forgot about the nonsense words.

"There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it."