I must wave my white flag in defeat! I admit I surrendered half way through Perdido Street Station. I got roughly 300 pages into the 600 page novel. I don't want my 2 stars to necessarily discourage readers from picking up this book. First, let me explain. Based on the Goodreads rating system, ...
Judging from other reviews, this is one of those marmite books, that you'll either love, or hate. Luckily for me I'm in the 'LOVED IT' group.New Crobuzon is an immense city which is both filthily squallid and amazingly vibrant. Filled with a fantastic plethora of people and cultures. Artists and ...
This book is a richly worded scifi/fantasy novel that develops several intricate plots but resolves most of them too quickly and easily. The world, a well thought out amalgam of steampunk and technomagic, was clearly created with love and care by China and drew me in immediately despite my usual dis...
I had pretty high hopes going into Perdido Street Station so I am a bit disappointed to only be giving it three stars. I had heard from so many different sources about how great this book was that I often found myself wondering if I was reading the right book.To be blunt the story just didn't engag...
I had pretty high hopes going into Perdido Street Station so I am a bit disappointed to only be giving it three stars. I had heard from so many different sources about how great this book was that I often found myself wondering if I was reading the right book.To be blunt the story just didn't engag...
I had pretty high hopes going into Perdido Street Station so I am a bit disappointed to only be giving it three stars. I had heard from so many different sources about how great this book was that I often found myself wondering if I was reading the right book.To be blunt the story just didn't engag...
I had pretty high hopes going into Perdido Street Station so I am a bit disappointed to only be giving it three stars. I had heard from so many different sources about how great this book was that I often found myself wondering if I was reading the right book.To be blunt the story just didn't engag...
With the opening pages, you are carried along the current and ferried into Mieville’s fractured, dingy world of New Corbuzon. Perdido Street Station wastes no time with acculturation. Mieville’s use of language seems to be the major complaint with most readers, but it’s the wordplay that kept me l...
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