I hated King Rat so much I didn’t finish it, and left a bad review in good reads.

In fact, I felt so bad about writing that mean review that I deleted my profile and quit goodreads. King Rat is the book that got me off of goodreads! So that’s a positive.

I really love the New Crobuzon books, and I made the mistake of reading King Rat right after those. It, obviously, wasn’t what I was looking for. Also, the lengthy descriptions of what an amazing DJ the main character was were astoundingly annoying. Like, seriously, I do not care about DJs. I might even say I actively dislike DJs—the cooler they are, the more I hate them! And the DJ in this book is soooooooooop cool. (Eye rolls)

Also James Clavell wrote a way better book with that same title. It’s fictional story about a deadly prison camp in WWII. Clavell himself was interred in that camp during the war.