Ultimately a fantastic book. The novel will take almost 200 pages to get going so hang in there and enjoy Mieville's seemingly pointless (it's not) lush, bizarre, and adjective laden descriptions of New Crobuzon and its denizens.I suppose this is categorized as science fiction, but its really a com...
Perdido Street Station is the first of Miéville's novels set in Bas-Lag -- a strangely familiar, almost Victorian era-world, but with outrageous evolutions that China somehow manages to make 'normal'. I loved the imaginative creations, humane themes, and fully dimensional characters who will remain ...
Disclaimer: The Moniker "His Chinaness" belongs to Nataliya. Short review: Read This Book No, I don't care what genre you usually read in. No, I really don't care, this is a book I would push onto a dead badger, if I could get away with it. Got that? Okay, uninitiated, you're now dismissed. Everyon...
Wow. After having been recommended to me twice in one day, I did something I rarely do and bought a copy of this book. And what an imagination! Mieville creates a dark, organic, rotting, pulsing, gem of a world, the kind of place you can really imagine ever sees daylight, and inhabits it with cha...
Unless you’re reading this book as an anthropomorphized thesaurus, this will be a quick and somewhat easy read for you. If you’re not, you may struggle with a word here and there. While I’m not original in telling you that Mieville is a wordsmith, it should be somewhat of a disclaimer to anyone ab...
This Steampunk meets New Weird meets Cyberpunk meets Fantasy novel has so many themes, that I'm not even going to try to give it full credit with some sort of synopsis. I'm rather just going to talk about various aspects of the book as I go along with my review.The way I felt when I finished the no...
China Miéville is obviously a man who loves words. Reading his long, often complex sentences, you can tell that he chooses his words very carefully. He also has an immense imagination. Both were put to very good use in Perdido Street Station.The plot itself is absorbing, once it kicks in. It takes a...
Perdido Street Station is a masterpiece of world creation. China Mieville has created a fantastic twisted universe, as rich as Indian curry, and as weirdly fascinating as a freak show at a village fair. The city of New Crobuzon continues to fascinate long after one finishes one's journey through i...
Honestly, I don't even know where to start with this review. I really don't even want to write it, because every minute spent doing this is time spent away from the world of Bas-Lag. Mieville's world-building is astonishingly good and very easy to become instantly immersed in.For once, the compariso...
To paraphrase Pratchett, "There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork New Crobuzon. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork New Crobuzon, but sometimes people walk along them the wrong way."(A stunning image of New Crobuzon from http://www.curufea.com)A word of warning: if you...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
