some interesting ideas in a book that seemed bloated with words to me. i knew it wasn't going to be a favourite even into the first four pages that introduce us to the reek of the rivers of the city new crobuzon. i thought it was london at first, a gross yet achingly familiar dickensian london, but...
Tightly plotted, with excellent visual description throughout and imaginative populations and environment. Still, I found the last third dragged a bit. I went on to read The Scar, but that'll be it for mieville and me, for a while.
Next on my quest to aquaint myself with some modern fantasy and SF (my last effort was Stardust by Neil Gaiman), I tackled this volume with some trepidation. Between three and four times the length of the books I normally read these days I was quite intimidated. To devote so much time to just one bo...
I don't know if I can finish this book. My copy runs to 710 pages, and 173 pages in, I have yet to really care about any of the characters. I really enjoyed Un Lun Dun, but this might just be too much for me. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++I'm putting this book down,...
After a hundred pages of no action whatsoever, I gave up on this novel. Apparently it gets very exciting, but it seems like Mieville gave up on plot and characters in service of building his crazy little world.
I think this book could have lost about 100 pages in the middle, and something about the author's word choices really got under my skin. The story concept was interesting, but I only finished it because it came so highly recommended.
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