This is a re-read for my RL book club as well. This is the second time I have read Perdido Street Station. I enjoyed it far more this time. The first time I read it, I gave it three stars. Now, it's four. It is a weird novel that would also work for the cryptozoologist square. It traces the...
I listened to the audio version of this book.Firstly, I believe over 40% of this book could have been left out. A huge amount was spent on narrative that was not needed nor help progress the story. I found it to cause confusion at times, also the book jumped from character to character with no clear...
Perdido Street Station is the hub of rail traffic in New Crobuzon, and home to foreign embassies. It is a monstrous building, immense in scale, that is astounding even in a city as ancient and crowded and industrial as New Crobuzon. The novel establishes the civilization: a melting pot of species an...
Ridiculously imaginative. The book you can really split into two parts. The first half builds the characters of Isaac, Lin and Yagharek. You feel as though the story will be based around the quest of Yagharek to regain flight through Isaac, the mad scientist and main character. However with the seco...
Perdido Street Station seemed like a sort of odd but mostly-effective blending of genres. After finishing the book I found that a lot of people classify it as steampunk. This was my first experience with steampunk, so I can’t say if this is a unique specimen or not, but it was definitely unique in...
No, not the book itself, but arguably the three adjectives Miéville overused most, to the point where I could see the next one coming. Adjective storm ahead, skipper - shall I alter course? No way around it, ship-mates, just batten down the hatches, and get the men down off the rigging. Though com...
I wanted to like this one, and I really thought I would, but the characters, writing, and setting couldn't hold me. I thought The Scar (which I read first, years ago) was a case of cool ideas that just didn't quite work to absorb me, and that part of my problem was that I hadn't read Perdido Street...
I like to imagine the author bent on his work, shrieking, "What is this paragraph? Only two legs? Only ten fingers? No, no,no, no, this is all WRONG! More animal limbs! His feet must be plants! He must have at least three necks! And fifteen mouths! And how many stomachs does he have? Quadruplicate t...
Guys. Guys. Do yourselves a favour and read this book. New Crobuzon is a dirty, sprawling, foetid city (think Ankh-Morpork but without the charm) at the centre of Bas-Lag, a vast and hostile world of deserts and wandering libraries and strange storms. It's populated by humans, mutants, half-breeds...
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