Disclaimer: I received this book from Del Rey!That said, a giveaway is probably the guaranteed way I would have read Railsea, because it has been described on the jacket as "a brilliantly imagined take on Herman Melville's Moby Dick" and I have a long and sordid enmity with that book. It's not just ...
This was one of Mieville's weirdest I've ever read. The world took some getting used to, but got easier as it went along. It's certainly YA in characterization, theme, and writing style, however, I'm not sure if the target audience will buy what Mieville is selling. It doesn't help that Mieville ...
Quite a fun ride, and richly stratified -- moldyworps all the way down! -- with some really choice bits of language, but I'm not getting the Mievillian critique of power which some of the publisher teaser text seemed to imply was in here. There's enough "there" there to get some (upper end) middle g...
Leave it to China Miéville to write a young adult novel and so obfuscate his intentions (via complex vocabulary, a tricky literary style, dense prose, measured pacing, a total lack of plot threads about which boy is cuter) that I've had more than one conversation with youth librarians here on Goodre...
I wanted to like it. It's inspired by Moby Dick, after all, and the idea sounds neat. But 150 pages in, I have to admit I'm just bored. I don't care about any of the characters, I don't think the writing is as clever as it's trying to be, and no, I don't like that he inexplicably uses an ampersand i...
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