I've finished!!

Perdido Street Station is finally completed. Yeah, I know, it took a while. But that was an INTENSE read. And well worth it. Definitely recommending it to all my friends -- if they have the hours to spend reading a 700-page novel. The ending, especially....you get caught up by all the drama and the excitement of the slake moths, but really, the main theme of the novel has little to do with them. It's about justice and about human perversions of justice. Though, actually, I suppose that the slake moths COULD be part of this theme, if you consider that they are punishing the city for its cruelty and its corruption. Especially if you remember that the government and the leaders of the city are no more excluded than the common fella. Fascinated by that "anarchic" fReemade character with the complex, hyphenated name who had such a minor role in the novel. Please tell me he's the hero of another Mieville novel?

Now what shall I pick up? Torn between Octavia E. Butler's Lilith trilogy, as well as a more typical sci-fi novel my brother recommended, and finally Gille's Deleuzes' Masochism: Coldness & Cruelty. Haven't read any theory in a while (not since Bataille's Erotism got too much for me and started affecting my thinking too much) so I think I'll pick up the latter.