I admit to being a bit inured to the "new weird". In fact, I'd say the new weird . . . is getting old. Strangeness for the sake of strangeness has lost a bit of its luster. I've read, and written, plenty of fiction in this vein. That's not to say that it's atrophied in my mind - I still appreciate t...
It happened right there on the first page. Mieville referred to sewers as "secular sepulchres," and I almost swooned. Perdido Street Station had me in its thrall from pretty much that point on. The relationship got a little rockier as the book got creepier, but I managed to hold on through some fair...
Often great detail and an immerse world are a good thing, it'll draw you into the story and characters far more than a world with the barest glimpse of it's edges. There are times, though, when there can be too much of the world. I feel this book is a prime example of that. Mieville has gone to such...
I really wanted to like this one, especially after having read and enjoyed Un Lun Dun, but this one never got my attention like I expected it to. The world-building in the book is extraordinary, and the ideas were intriguing, but it ultimately felt like too much description and not enough plot. I ...
Ah, this book is a messy quilt of genres. It is about a city that is a messy quilt of species, cultures, and environments and one of the characters is a walking messy quilt of random multi-specie body parts. Fractals, yet never using the word fractal.Mieville easily gets away with many things in thi...
I feel like I really should have like this book better, as it is exceptionally written. I just didn't connect or care about the characters, at all. Also, there were a few key plot elements(characters, places, etc) that were mentioned in passing, never re-explained, and I found myself feeling lost ...
In this melange of Sf and Fantasy it's easy to get lost. At first it drags and then it takes off and drags you into an interesting world and an interesting situation. Mieville manages to make this such a different book, creating a very original world with alien creatures and punishments that ofte...
[bc:Perdido Street Station|68494|Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)|China Miéville|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327891688s/68494.jpg|3221410]FYI. I wanted to read this book for years. I could never get more than 15%. So I acquired the Audio book and I was then able to read and listen at the ...
I've come to terms with the fact that I will likely never completely finish this novel, which is sad because there were things I enjoyed about it, and I also already own a copy of The Scar (which I may give a read anyway). Frankly, this book plods on and on with no real direction for the entire midd...
As always, wonderful world-building, terrific descriptions, great characters, heavy internal parallelism, and a fine narrative voice. There's some unresolved moral ambiguity, and a character or two fades away non-threateningly at the end, but otherwise tightly constructed. Lovecraft plus Stephenson,...
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