Looking for Jake and Other Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781405048309 (1405048301)
Publish date: September 2005
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages no: 303
Edition language: English
I wasn't sure what to expect from China Mieville when it came to short stories. But I've read a handful of his novels and was excited to see what he could do with the medium. I was not disappointed. I was slightly terrified by a few of them, and overall I couldn't believe how good they were. I borro...
- This review can also be found at my book blog -It was my first time reading China Miéville. As in every short stories collection, there were ones I loved, ones I really didn’t like and ones I just went meh at, but overall it is stronger than many others I’ve read over the years.The titular novella...
I've always known there was something deeply wrong about Ikea. It's like some kind of Swedish hellscape, a garish blue-and-yellow mercantile abyss. You go there and wander that infernal labyrinth in despair, and you feel your soul being sucked out of you slowly by some unseen chthonic force. That...
Lo leí porque me gusta Miéville y porque leerlo en inglés siempre es un desafío. Disfruté dos de las historias y las demás ni me acuerdo de qué trataban. Y me gustaron por su trabajo de atmósfera, por la presentación de pequeños detalles, una historia de una mujer perseguida por algo que vio y que n...
Another brilliant, if bleak, effort from Miéville.If I had to choose one word to tie in all of these short stories (and one novella, [book:The Tain]), I'd have to say "paranoia". Almost every story involves a character fearful of something — often without obvious cause.Miéville's wordplay is, as alw...
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