Weirdness and more weirdness! What a steampunk novel could be if directed by Quentin Tarantino on a Spike Lee joint. Chock full of striking images, such as these, acchhh! slake-moths! Mieville has a way of getting inside your head, clamping on like a leech and sucking all of your mental juices, un...
So, this book has been on my radar for a while, but I never really got around to reading it until it was chosen as a group read. Not very many of the group enjoyed it, and some gave up on it around mid-way. I was determined to at least finish it, and so I have. Though it did take me the better part ...
as far as i can tell, china mieville has a big, big world inside his head.this book is set in one city. just the one. there’s pretty much no outside involvement, unless you count the place where yagharek comes from, and that’s only really mentioned. but this city is huge. it’s truly massive. th...
as far as i can tell, china mieville has a big, big world inside his head.this book is set in one city. just the one. there’s pretty much no outside involvement, unless you count the place where yagharek comes from, and that’s only really mentioned. but this city is huge. it’s truly massive. th...
I'd never have picked this up if it hadn't popped to the top of my reading list - never thought fantasy of this nature was my thing at all (been put of by trying - and failing - to get through Tolkein too many times). Rather heavy, at approaching 800 pages in paperback, but actually really good. Nic...
Oh Jabber! what a pugnacious book! (Sorry, a little in-joke for those who have already read this book.)I normally prefer to read books that are around 400 pages long or shorter because I am too impatient to slog through long books. However, I do make the add exceptions for books that really interest...
my dear Perdido Street Station,perhaps it is fated not to be. or perhaps i need to grow a bit more, until i am able to understand and appreciate your unique charms. but for now, i am just not ready. please don't take this personally - i promise that i shall try you out again sometime, perhaps soon. ...
Despite having declared Mr. Miéville my literary boyfriend some time ago, I have to come out and admit I've only read one (1) book by him. I've read his foray into YA, Un Lun Dun, which thumbs the touchstones of his writing: urban spaces, a bunch of weird ass shit, and literary genres ground through...
Lots of people like to accuse China Miéville of writing with a thesaurus open next to his laptop. How else to explain the frequent appearance of "ossified," "salubrious," "susurrus" and "inveigled" within the 623 pages of Perdido Street Station? Ok, so you can maybe argue that if you write a 250,000...
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